From  this  time  to  the  Prankish  conquest,  Greece,  as  a
whole,  was  held  by  the  Empire.     But,  as  a  recovered
and,  it  was  one  of  those  parts  of  the  Em})ire  in  which
a  tendency  to  separate  began  to  show  itself.     In  the
course  of  these   changes,    the    name   Ilellmen,    as   a


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THE   EASTERN  EMPIRE.
Hellenes  of
Maina.
Eomania.
Dalinatia,
Scrvia,  and
Croatia.
Greatness
of  the  first
Bulgarian
kingdom.
Attempt  on
I'annonia,

818-829.
Advance
anainst  the
Empire.
Conquests
of  Simeon,
923-934.
national  name,  quite  died  out.  It  had  long  meant
pagan,  and  it  was  confined  to  tlie  people  of  Maina,  who
remained  pagan  till  near  the  end  of  the  ninth  centmy.
The  Greeks  now  knew  no  name  but  that  of  Romans.
The  local,  perhaps  contemptuous,  name  of  the  inhabi-
tants of  Hellas  w^as  Helladikoi.
Thus,  at  the  division  of  the  Empires,  Thrace,  Mace-
donia, and  Greece  had  been  more  or  less  thoroughly  re-
covered by  the  Eastern  Empire,  while  the  lands  between
Hajmus  and  Danube  were  wholly  lost.  The  Imperial
dominion  from  the  Hadriatic  to  the  Euxine  formed,
together  with  the  Asiatic  provinces,  Romania,  the  land
of  the  Eomans  of  the  East.  The  Em})erors  also  kept
the  cities  on  the  Dalmatian  coast,  and  the  precarious
allegiance  of  the  Servian  and  (Croatian  principalities.
