A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.
Broke: Italy is the successor to the Roman Empire
Woke: Hong Kong is the successor to the Roman Empire
Bespoke: We are ALL the successor to the Roman Empire on this blessed day.
And now I want to see Brazilian Carnival dressed legionaries.
They ready to twerk
"You may look perhaps for a troop of Spanish maidens to win applause by immodest dance and song, sinking down with quivering thighs to the floor..."
Juvenal's 11th Satire, 1st century AD
Hashkully, the Byzantine Empire never existed. It was always the Eastern Roman Empire.
It was recoined as the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople from the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s by Renaissance scholars a few hundred years later.
They changed the history books when they wanted to make a distinction from the ancient Roman Empire from the very different but still same Roman Empire that fell not long before them, because the western Romans were considered pagans, and the East were Christians.
It was called the Byzantine Empire because the city that existed before Constantinople, was called Byzantium. Which was the new Roman capital when Emperor Constantine seized power, who was the first Christian Roman Emperor.
Vietnam, got it. Ave Caesar Minh
Hmm, arguably there should be a more direct path to the Papal States. The church had land throughout the migration period, although I don't know enough to say if there was a period where none of it was sovereign.
Anyway, it's clearly East Timor. Or maybe Nero is still alive in Antarctica. /s
cool chart
Absurd. Where is the Tsar
Cropped out, maybe? That would be a branch off of Byzantium.
Carthage should rule the world.
That's fine. It has the Latin right and is capital of a fine province.
Fuck the Romans
Romanes eunt domus
IRRVMABO, BARBARVM.
Side note: Christ, Latin has a lot of inflection logic.