>call yourself the "wholly Roman Empire" >not

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>call yourself the "Roman Empire"
>not one emperor is even from rome
>all of the empire is localted outside of Italy

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>>1064279
>>1064276
>Call yourself Roman Emperor
>Descended from Spaniards
>Capital isn't even Rome.

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>>1064290
>Call yourself Roman Emperor
>Born in Illyria
>Barely even lived in Rome.

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>Call yourself Roman Emperor
>Born in Libya
>Married a Syrian

Are we seeing how ridiculous this is yet?

>>1064292
He was actually called Restitutor Orbis - literally, 'Restorer of the World'

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>Call yourself Dictator of Rome
>Born in Arpinum

>>1064276
Can the HRE be summarized as the Proto Prussia/Germany?

>>1064299
I'm never quite sure of the full title, wasn't there an Invictus in there somewhere?

>>1064298
I don't get it

>>1064302
no
too much european as in non-solely-german things going on

>>1064276
Whats wrong with that. It's like knowingly moving out of a shithole in to a new house

>>1064342
because it's not even part Roman let alone 'wholly'

>>1064302
Well, it was the 1st Reich, and the Emperors was German most of the time.

>>1064276

And yet people here scream that Byzantines were litterally Romans.

>WE WUZ EMPIRES N SHIT
germany pls go