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"No nation is older than 250"
(lemm.ee)
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A threads post saying "There has never been another nation ever that has existed much beyond 250 years. Not a single one. America's 250th year is 2025. The next 4 years are gonna be pretty interesting considering everything that's already been said." It has a reply saying "My local pub is older than your country".
Rome lasted for 2,000 years because I consider the Byzantines as true Romans.
So did they, "byzantine empire" is a modern conceit
Depending on who you ask, some might even say that Rome still IS
ROMA INVICTA
There is an island in the Aegean where they identified as Roman until 1912