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Ivan the Great married the niece of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire, which had been part of the Roman Empire. Its leaders were titled Caesars after Julius and Augustus Caesar. The wor Czar (also spelled Tsar) is a form of the word Caesar. Ivan liked to think of himself as part of the long line of Caesars that way.

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