[wutangson1]

Not sure your suspicion is accurate... Constantinople was a deliberate break from Rome, given that it's people spoke koine Greek and not Latin, and that before falling to the Turkish invaders was attacked and ransacked by the Crusaders who carried the banner of the Holy Roman Empire.

[olavk]

Constantinople were deliberate attempt to move the capital of the empire, but it was still the same empire, and they still considered themselves Romans.

The Holy Roman Empire did not really have the same continuity from the Roman Empire, it was just a title chosen for the prestige.

[Khaine]

The Holy Roman Empire is only so named because Charlemagne managed to get a Pope to crown him the Holy Roman Emperor of the West.

The Roman Empire was so large that at some point they needed two-four emperors to run it (Senior and Junior emperors)

The reason for the name split is probably due to Gibbon who moralised about the decline and fall and tied the fall to the rise of the Church

[ycombinete]

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