Which country in Europe lived up to the legacy of Rome most?

>>2900953

The DPRK?

Unironically either Ottomans or Russia.
Huge, aggressive, expansionist, multicultural lasted that way for centuries.

there is no distinct legacy of rome pertaining solely to one people, there are for instance no Byzantines with us here today

you can say whatever you like it really matters not at all, the whole of our culture is in a way colored by the achievements of that ancient state, indeed the whole of it is in a way rome

The French monarchy.

>>2900953
UK

>>2900953
Spain

France under the rule of Napoleon

USSR

>>2900953
Russia desu

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Turkey

>>2901031
>>2901032
These.

>>2901027
those are saxons

>>2900953
France, Spain and Britain at various points in time

Sacrum Imperium Romanum

And you fucking know it.

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>>2903625

The what now?

America

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>>2903667

>>2900988
This is the only answer

>>2900988
>Ottomans
Triggering 90% of /his/.
Like it!

Germany

I would say the Holy Roman Empire

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>>2900953
Sweden

>>2900953
>rough start
>corruption
>civil wars and coup d'etats
>enslaved and raped savages
>slow fall into absolute chaos
Unironically spain

the byzantines

>>2900953
USA

>>2904792

while we are technically in europe, no one is supposed to know

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>>2904412
This to be honest

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>>2903625
>Holy Roman Empire
>not holy
>not roman
>hardly an empire
"Congratulations, you're the new Roman Emperor!" the Pope says to Charlemagne, pretending to still be part of the Roman Empire

>>2904808
military bases are a helluva drug

>>2900988
What about being the heralds of civilization?
I think Spain fits the bill better.

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>>2900953
The Vatican.

>>2901312
Kraut propagandist detected. We're island Slavs.

>>2904576
Ottoman empire falls in that category too.

>>2901031
This desu