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"I didn't hear no bell" (europe.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Explanation: In the aptly named Crisis of the Third Century, the Roman Empire was on the verge of literal disintegration. The frontier province of Illyricum (the modern day Balkans), combining both a high degree of assimilation into Roman culture and a pre-existing warrior society, provided a great many recruits for the Roman military, including several so-called 'barracks emperors' with military backgrounds.

They were not ready to give up on the dream that was ROME!

[–] username_1@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Balkans), combining both a high degree of assimilation into Roman culture

I heard that Romanian/Moldovan language is the nearest what we have to Latin.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago

Romanian is a Romance language, but to my (admittedly limited) knowledge, Italian beats it out for the closest major Romance language to Latin.