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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Charlemagne was older than that. The HRE was German by Roman standards.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The Holy Roman Empire was not a contemporary of Julius Caesar nor was it united. If your subdivisions are fighting wars with each other then I don't consider that a proper "country".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, nor was it Roman, nor was it an empire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I think I’m taking this too seriously for historymemes, but if someone from the future came to tell me something was invented by “Slavia”, I’d probably assume it was a country northeast of what I know as Austria, even though those countries are currently at war with each other. I can imagine a future in thousands of years where they’re politically and culturally united, even though I can’t imagine one in twenty years.