If you're going that route, there are far more than two distinct peoples in Italy.
The south had some peculiar interactions with Vikings, Arabs, and Greeks,
Note that it was Ravenna where the exarch of Byzantium resided.
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You analogized it to Africa, which is how triumphalist northerners labeled the region after basically conquering it. "This is not Italy, this is Africa" - was what one of them said. Complete nonsense, of course.
If you're going that route, there are far more than two distinct peoples in Italy.
Note that it was Ravenna where the exarch of Byzantium resided.
You analogized it to Africa, which is how triumphalist northerners labeled the region after basically conquering it. "This is not Italy, this is Africa" - was what one of them said. Complete nonsense, of course.
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