At which point of its history, the Byzantine Empire, became a greek kingdom?

Question

The last Emperor of Byzantium sign as Costantine Paleologos, King of the Greeks.

Answer 1

Byzantine Empire (properly the Eastern Roman Empire!) was an empire based on the old Greek world of the eastern Mediterranean!
(Byzantine Empire (Greek: Βασίλειον τών Ρωμαίων) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople.)
During most of its history it was known to its Western contemporaries as "The Empire of the Greeks". Today most scholars acknowledge that properly speaking, the "Medieval Greek (Byzantine) Empire" was the continuation of the Hellenistic World, and its study is often grouped under “Hellenology”.
The empire did not start as a Greek empire though! As greatly described by Helene Ahrweiler, (Les Europeens, pp.150, Herman (Paris), 2000.): "Byzantium may be defined as a multi-ethnic empire that emerged as a Christian empire, soon comprised the Hellenized empire of the East and ended its thousand-year history, in 1453, as a Greek Orthodox state: An empire that became a nation, almost by the modern meaning of the word"
The Byzantine Greeks (the Greeks, or the Hellenized citizens only) identified themselves as Romans (Ρωμαίοι - Romaioi) and by the 7th century had already become a synonym for a "Hellene" (Έλλην, Greek) and more than ever before were developing a national consciousness as residents of Ρωμανία (Rōmania, as the Byzantine state and its world were called). This nationalist awareness is reflected in literature, particularly in the acritic songs, where frontiersmen (Ακρίτες) are praised for defending their country against invaders, of which the most famous is the heroic or epic poem Digenis Akritas.
Byzantines were generally conscious of their continuity with ancient Greeks and Romans. Even though the ancient Greeks were not Christians, the Byzantine intellectuals regarded them as their ancestors, and referring to their Medieval Greek language as "Hellenic". In fact, the Byzantines did not only refer to themselves as Rōmaioi in order to retain both their Roman citizenship and their ancient Hellenic (Greek) heritage. A common substitute for the term "Hellene" (originally with pagan connotations) other than Rōmaios was the term Graikos (Γραίκος). Evidence of the use of the term Graikos can be found in the works of Priscus, a historian of the 5th century. In one of his accounts while part of an unofficial embassy to Attila the Hun, he had met at Attila's court someone who dressed like a Scythian yet spoke Greek. When Priscus asked the person where he had learned the language, the man smiled and said that he was a Graikos (Greek) by birth.
Many think that it was Emperor Heraclius who fully Hellenized the Empire by making Greek the official language, but the empire turned Greek in a later period!
Although the royal dynasties were Greek (or half Greek), the upper aristocracy was Greek and the upper military was Greek too, still the empire controlled non Greek regions and it held a multiethnic character.
The turn point was the 4th crusade! After the suck of Konsatntinople from the crusaders and the wars that follow the empire was reduced only in the Greek regions of the Asia Minor and in the Greek mainland! That had as a result the complete turn of the empire; from a Greek dominate multi Nation Empire to a Greek empire. That’s why the last emperor of Byzantium, his royal Majesty Basileus Kostantinos Palaiologos signed as emperor of the Greeks!

Answer 2

The Byzantine Empire was simply a continuation of the Roman Empire and was never "Greek" in the sense that I suspect you mean.

The Greek language was in place as the common tongue of the area that the Romans conquered that became the eastern portion of their empire. That area never ceased being Roman nor did it ever stop speaking Greek.

With the collapse of the empire in the west in the 5th century the majority of Roman citizens were now in the East and spoke Greek rather than Latin as the common tongue.

Recognizing this reality Flavius Heraclius Augustus made Greek rather than Latin the official language of the Empire in the 7th century.

The Byzantines (that term was not used at the time) continued to refer to themselves as Romans.

The Franks in the west who claimed the mantle of the Roman Empire referred to the Byzantines as "Greeks" to distinguish them from what they, the Franks, saw as the "true" continuation of the Romans.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

They always were Greek. They were in Greece and spoke Greek but considered themselves Roman.

Weird huh?

Answer 5

Well it was say that roman were former greek people who escape to italy and a particular interest is that it sort of coincide with the fall of troy period. But the byzantine empire never become a greek kingdom. It live as a roman christian empire and die as one.

Answer 6

i know that the byzantines were originally romans who spoke greek, but im not sure when they actually became made up of greeks