Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-4923787-20130202175501/@comment-32656-20130317085916

...And all of those projects and references would mean it was the capital. Not a single one of those would be built anywhere but the capital. Each one is effectively a statement that it's the capital.

Can, Byzantium was a backwater then, and would have remained so.

"Gallic Empire" would be used. "Gallo-Roman" just really is awkward, at best.

For the Italy-centered one.... "Latin Empire" would be likely, or something similar.

Heck, for that matter, I would not be surprised if the Eastern Empire eventually got referred to as the "Greek" Empire.

Think of it this way - the Gauls and similar tribes dominate the "Gallic" Empire, Romans themselves and a few other tribes the "Latin" Empire, and the Greeks (with Egyptian and Jewish support) the "Eastern" Empire.