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by eru 1416 days ago
> [...] has been culturally unified since time immemorial.

Could you be a bit more concrete?
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hnfong 1415 days ago
Not the GP but I'll be more concrete in the other direction.

The Roman Empire is located in Europe, is more recent than "time immemorial", and I'll claim that they didn't regard the various barbarians in Europe outside its sphere of influence as culturally unified with them.

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eru 1414 days ago
It depends a bit on what we mean by 'time immemorial'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_immemorial for some possibilities.

In a legal context, 'time immemorial' is often much, much more recent than the Roman Empire, even the Eastern part.

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