What would Byzantine be called if restored?

Saw the quote from worst 19th century cliches.
"Greece will go from non-existent in 1800 to becoming the Byzantine Empire by 1900, and the Byzantine Empire will of course be one of the Great Powers of Europe. It will also not be called be Greece, but literally called the Byzantine Empire and style itself as the successor to the original Byzantium, and Europe willtreat this as a normal course of affairs."


So I've been wondering, since the name Byzantine itself is an outsider construct, what would they call themselves if Byzantine were restored?

Hoi Rhomaioi, the Romans. The R is aspirated in ancient Greek, hence the rh. Someone had asked about that, but I don't want to post twice. Romania was briefly, ca 1864, the United Principalities. Dacia was basically Transylvania, not Moldavia and only a bit of Wallachia.
 
Sneaky. Almost puts the Phanariotes on the same level as the alleged power of the Freemasons and Jews. I don't think the Phanariotes ever had the goal of "let's revive Byzantium, and one of us is Emperor", and if they did, they wouldn't really be successful.

That was pretty much the goal of the Phanariotes.
Of course, it wasn't some kind of a single, well-organized conspiracy ("Protocols of the Elders of Fener"?). It was more of a general tendency in Phanariote culture and politics - a vague, but fairly persistent and powerful tendency.

The complaint about their power is a valid one, though it's not like the Ottoman Empire was a picture of strength and stability at the time.

Catholics wouldn't present much of a problem; their numbers were few, and they may be gobbled up by Austria anyway.
The bigger problem is that many of the Phanariotes were - fairly or not - strongly disliked among their fellow Orthodox Christians, and the goals of the average Balkan peasant did not have much in common with the ideas of the Fener elite...there was barely anything they both wanted, other than an end to Ottoman rule. A smarter and better organized Phanariote group can start a revolution, maybe even a successful revolution, but can they stay in control of it? Not so sure.
 
That was pretty much the goal of the Phanariotes.
Of course, it wasn't some kind of a single, well-organized conspiracy ("Protocols of the Elders of Fener"?). It was more of a general tendency in Phanariote culture and politics - a vague, but fairly persistent and powerful tendency.

The complaint about their power is a valid one, though it's not like the Ottoman Empire was a picture of strength and stability at the time.

Catholics wouldn't present much of a problem; their numbers were few, and they may be gobbled up by Austria anyway.
The bigger problem is that many of the Phanariotes were - fairly or not - strongly disliked among their fellow Orthodox Christians, and the goals of the average Balkan peasant did not have much in common with the ideas of the Fener elite...there was barely anything they both wanted, other than an end to Ottoman rule. A smarter and better organized Phanariote group can start a revolution, maybe even a successful revolution, but can they stay in control of it? Not so sure.

Well, it sounds like that at the heart of things, a Phanariote that is a 'Man of the People', alongside a military man - is a very potent option for a PoD - even if it is only to wrangle the Phanariotes into a coherent block.
 
There was no desire, AFAIK, from anyone inside the Romanian principalities, to name the country "Dacia". None. zero. zilch.
 
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