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In OTL, Romania was so named because its inhabitants speak a Romance language (i.e. based on Latin). But the Eastern Roman Empire – now referred to as the Byzantine Empire – was also commonly called Romania at the time (i.e. "land of the Romans"). So in the event that the Eastern Roman Empire survives somehow but OTL-Romania still unites, what are possible alternate names for the country?

My first thought was of course "Well, what did that ethnicity call themselves before they started calling themselves Romanians?" Then I saw they were called Vlachs (which I should've realised: my grandmother is a Greek Vlach), and realised that of course that's where the name "Wallachia" comes from. So I don't know how that would go as a name for the whole region.
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