• plyth@feddit.orgBanned from community
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      9 个月前

      A bit strange to ask, but should the Holy Roman Empire be considered an empire at that time?

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        9 个月前

        I am not sure tbh, I know it was Italy and Germany and dissolved during the Napoleonic wars, but beyond that my knowledge of its history is thin.

        I guess it also depends how and for what purpose you are defining it as an empire or not.

        Wikipedia calls the holy Roman empire a polity, but refers to the first french empire under Napoleon as an empire for whatever that’s worth?

        Possibly the naming was aspirational, or a throwback to the Roman empire that controlled most of Europe?