Who is the more rightful successor of the Roman Empire, Italy or HRE?
italy has no real right except the same geographical area
>H>R>E
ERE is the only rightful successor
>>1060668
I'd argue France
>>1060668
>the Trojan refugee Aeneas escape to Italy and found the line of Romans through his son Iulus, the namesake of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
>>1060668
Lichtenstein.
>>1060685
Lel using Virgil as a sauce
>>1060670
>italy has no real right except the same geographical area
lolwut
The thing is, Byzantium/the ERE was the actual Roman Empire. Constantine made Constantinople his capital in the early 4th century. The Roman Empire lost most of its Western territories in the 5th century.
>>1060668
ETE were the only ones with commoners calling themselves Romans hundreds of years after the fall of the WRE.
>>1060668
The third reich.
>>1060810
This is beautiful
HRE
I mean COME ON
It's the spirit that counts.
>>1060810
WE
>>1060810
We are all Romans now
>>1061366
WUZ
>>1061390
ROMANS
>>1060668
>>1060668
The Byzantines. Anything else is German revisionism.
>>1060668
HRE was neither H nor R nor E
>>1060810
Goddamn, that's beautiful.
>tfw you will never proudly call yourself a Roman.
>>1060685
And Hector was a direct male-line ancestor of the Hapsburgs. :3
>>1060810
this does not seem like a completely unbiased testimony 2bh
