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minus-squareplyth@feddit.orgBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 months agoA bit strange to ask, but should the Holy Roman Empire be considered an empire at that time?
minus-squareDjehngo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI 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?
A bit strange to ask, but should the Holy Roman Empire be considered an empire at that time?
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?