04-26-2021, 10:07 PM
That was said about the Holy Roman Empire (some kind of German thing)
The Constantinople-based empire was bigger, wealthier and better run than the barbarian-filled former Euro part.
(I'm re-reading Gibbon now. The Romish part was probably dead after Commodus was strangled in his bath, by popular demand, in 192.)
The Constantinople-based empire was bigger, wealthier and better run than the barbarian-filled former Euro part.
(I'm re-reading Gibbon now. The Romish part was probably dead after Commodus was strangled in his bath, by popular demand, in 192.)