The most enduring and significant claimants of continuation of the Roman Empire have been, in the East, the Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire, which both claimed succession of the Byzantine Empire after 1453 and in the West, the Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806. As centuries went by and more political ruptures occurred, the idea of institutional continuity became increasingly debatable. Several polities have claimed immediate continuity with the Roman Empire, using its name or a variation thereof as their own exclusive or non-exclusive self-description. It reflects the lasting memories of power and prestige associated with the Roman Empire. The continuation, succession, and revival of the Roman Empire is a running theme of the history of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Imperial lands surround us! Protect your soul from suffocating! I will cut off and live on the fat of the whale from inside it's swollen belly.Carolingian Emperor Louis the Pious represented as a Roman soldier holding a Christian cross, with superimposed poem De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis by Rabanus Maurus, 9th century I will give everything in love and remember no more violence, As hard as it is to live this, I believe everything is possible. But they have not yet burned down the home of Palestinian children. The barbarians will burn down your house, your bank, your supermarket, and police station. I will punish their sins with a rod and their iniquities with flogging but I will not take away my love from them or ever forsake my faithfulness. You have defiled the crown into the dust. How long? Will you hide yourself forever? How long? Will your wrath burn like fire? You have renounced your covenant. No one lost their lives for the sake of a few jewels. Everything was stolen or burned to the ground. The barbarian savagery had a gentle nature, the large basilisks chosen set aside. All the devastation the butchering the plundering the conflagration and all the anguish were in accord with the general practise of war.
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