The Greeks

In a world with a modern Byzantium, what would the adjective that would be applied to people from there? I have ruled out Roman due to the POD. Any ideas?
 
Roman, it's what they called themselves that is all that matters in regards to demonym. (Byzantine)
What you call yourself means very little to another language. I also declined Roman due to the POD. Spanish in Spanish is Español, obviously, Spanish could be derived from that but they are not the same.
 
In Europe? Probably either Greek (or some variant thereof) or something like Romanian.

In the Middle East and the wider Islamic world, including India and Southeast Asia, everyone would still say Rumi, "Roman."

In China you'll have a Mongol-based name, just like the Chinese called the Ottomans the Khungghar empire after the Mongol name for them.
 
What you call yourself means very little to another language. I also declined Roman due to the POD. Spanish in Spanish is Español, obviously, Spanish could be derived from that but they are not the same.
Well, it could be a situation similar to Iran. For most of it's history Western Europeans call them the "Greece", but at some point the Roman government would pressure then international community to call them Roman. Just like how Iran pressured the international community to refer to them as Iran instead of Persia in the '30's.

Really depends on the POD though, as after the 4th Crusade more and more Romans began calling themselves Hellenes and there was a small revival of Hellenic culture during that era. So maybe the Greeks would make the change themselves, it's hard to say.
 
What you call yourself means very little to another language.

Shoot, sometimes even within a language too. Such as in Korean there is no unified agreement as to what to call "Korea". The South Koreans call it "Hanguk", the Chinese, Japanese, and North Koreans call it "Chosun", and the Russians call it "Koryo". The latter two words are the names of ancient dynasties that ruled over Korea in the distant past, whereas the first is a 20th century neologism.
 
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They would be called Roman or Greek depending on your politics.

Copying from Quora:
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Byzantines-known-as-the-Romans-to-their-contemporaries

"The term "Byzantine Empire" was coined by Hieronymus Wolf a century after the Fall of Constantinople. "Byzantine" was never a term used by any contemporary to describe the Empire, and the standard term was "Empire of Greeks" by those who sought to downplay its Roman nature. The Arabs and the Turks however, always used "Rum" to describe the Empire and its lands (as did Eastern Christians-Copts, Assyrians, etc etc-at least ones that did not enter communion with the RCC during the Crusades). The Seljuk's established a Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia in lands captured after the Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071. Mehmed the Conqueror claimed the title of Kaiser-e-Rum (Caesar of Rome) after conquering Constantinople in 1453. In fact, the entire Greek speaking population of the Ottoman Empire were termed as millet of Rum and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople was treated as their leader. In fact, as has been noted in this great answer, there were people calling themselves Romans well into the early 20th Century."
 
Reading through Zeppelin's answer has pushed me towards Rhomanian or something of the like though some may not like it.
 
They would be called Roman or Greek depending on your politics.

Copying from Quora:
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Byzantines-known-as-the-Romans-to-their-contemporaries

"The term "Byzantine Empire" was coined by Hieronymus Wolf a century after the Fall of Constantinople. "Byzantine" was never a term used by any contemporary to describe the Empire, and the standard term was "Empire of Greeks" by those who sought to downplay its Roman nature. The Arabs and the Turks however, always used "Rum" to describe the Empire and its lands (as did Eastern Christians-Copts, Assyrians, etc etc-at least ones that did not enter communion with the RCC during the Crusades). The Seljuk's established a Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia in lands captured after the Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071. Mehmed the Conqueror claimed the title of Kaiser-e-Rum (Caesar of Rome) after conquering Constantinople in 1453. In fact, the entire Greek speaking population of the Ottoman Empire were termed as millet of Rum and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople was treated as their leader. In fact, as has been noted in this great answer, there were people calling themselves Romans well into the early 20th Century."
One interesting thing is we call modern Greece as Yunanistan in Turkish and Greeks from Greece as Yunan. Greeks from everywhere else is Rum
 
One interesting thing is we call modern Greece as Yunanistan in Turkish and Greeks from Greece as Yunan. Greeks from everywhere else is Rum
It's kind of interesting how long Ῥωμαῖοι lasted as a self indentification in Greece too. Even if there were some exceptions, Rigas Feraios for example is noteworthy for never mentioning the word "Hellene" in any of his writings, and exclusively calling Greeks "Romans". Most of the educated elite began to prefer Hellene in the late 18th Century, but the majority of the population, lower class and monks still used Ῥωμαῖοι way into the War for Independence. It reminds me of a saying Yannis Makriyannis recalled one of his friends saying:

"What say you, is the Roman State far away from coming? Are we to sleep with the Turks and awaken with the Romans?"
 
It's kind of interesting how long Ῥωμαῖοι lasted as a self indentification in Greece too. Even if there were some exceptions, Rigas Feraios for example is noteworthy for never mentioning the word "Hellene" in any of his writings, and exclusively calling Greeks "Romans". Most of the educated elite began to prefer Hellene in the late 18th Century, but the majority of the population, lower class and monks still used Ῥωμαῖοι way into the War for Independence. It reminds me of a saying Yannis Makriyannis recalled one of his friends saying:

"What say you, is the Roman State far away from coming? Are we to sleep with the Turks and awaken with the Romans?"

Indeed. I suspect that if Greece had remained Ottoman, Roman would be the predominant descriptor of ethnic identity due to Ottoman support. After all, "Greek" would be associated with western aided rebellion/ethnic separatism.
 
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