remember that the collapse of empires rarely happened in a single momentous event but were often prolonged processes that took years and sometimes is poorly agreed-upon. the Roman Empire fell in 476, 1453, or 1922, depending on your point of view.
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no, i'm saying that the fracturing of the Ottoman Empire, which could feasibly be argued to be mostly a continuation of the Eastern Roman polity, could constitute an endpoint
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Ah, that's stretching the definition of being an "heir to the empire" to the breaking point
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If I were writing it I'd just give it to him that he really was the last gasp of the Roman Emperors like he wanted to be and the Empire died with him in 1945
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