Why are there so many Byzantine TLs?

The Lombard state formed independent of Rome, therefore, it was not Roman. The Visigothic and Ostrogothic states formed independently of Roman, and were not Roman. The Anatolian Beyliks, including the Osmanli Emirate, formed independently of the Roman Empire, and therefore, were not Roman, even as they emerged on lands previously dominated by Rome. The imperial Roman state ended when it was conquered by the Osmanli state.
 
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