I was doing a kind of thought comparison of the Russian and Ottoman Empires and their internal structures, specifically the highly multiethnic structure of their elites (which I supposed is to be expected of contiguous land empires) as opposed to the European sea empires. Which leads me to ask:
As far as we know, how multiethnic was the elite of the Roman Empire? (What the heck did "Roman" mean anyway in the late Empire? Someone of Italian birth?)
Thanks! Vale!
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