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Constantinople was founded, originally referred only to the inhabitants of the city. Its usage began to broaden when Theodore Metochites and Laonikos Chalkokondyles employed "Byzantine" to denote the people of the empire as a whole; a development later widely propagated by Hieronymus Wolf. However, it was not until the mid-19th century that historians began systematically

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