What modern historiography calls the "Byzantine Empire" never used that expression, and kept calling itself the "Roman Empire", "Empire of the Romans", or "Romania" until the fall of Constantinople. Following the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire in 800, Christian Western Europeans were reluctant to apply the "Roman" epithet to the Eastern Empire and frequently called it "Empire of the Greeks" or "Greek Empire", even though they also used "Romania" – the latter also for the Latin Empire of the 13th century. By contrast, Muslims in the Levant and farther east typically referred to the people of the Eastern Empire as "Romans" ("Rum"), and to Western Europeans, including those from the Holy Roman Empire, as "Franks" ("Farang").