Which modern country is the successor of the Byzantine Empire?

Culturally Byzantine empire was “build” from the Greeks. The ones who made Constantinople where from Megara a place outside Athens. Then it became culturally Christian, East Roman Empire. read more

No modern country can claim the title of the East Poman Empire. It would be as void as if Chile claimed the name of the Aztec Empire. The “byzantine” culture, has survived through the Orthodox Christian Church. Espescially in the monasteries of Mount Athos. read more

Roman Empire was immediately succeeded by Byzantine Empire to a much smaller extent and then by the Ottoman Empire. With the fall of Roman Empire, there emerged a Germanic regime encompassing most of the Franco-Germanic (more accurately entire central) part of Europe, known as the Holy Roman Empire (not to be confused with Roman Empire). read more

so the succesor of byzantine empire are 1)the modern greeks and cypriots and all the greek populations that live outside the greek and cypriot state in areas that once were part of byzantine or ottoman empire.ex greeks of south italy.2) allthe orthodox christian populations who dont speak greek and live ine former byzantine or ottoman ares . read more