the holy roman empire

  • 51Holy Roman Emperor — noun sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire • Hypernyms: ↑emperor • Instance Hyponyms: ↑Charlemagne, ↑Carolus, ↑Charles, ↑Charles I, ↑Charles the Great, ↑Charles II, ↑ …

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  • 52Holy Roman Empire — (962 1806)    This term was applied to the German Empire, and from 1438 it can be considered for practical purposes the same as the Habsburg Empire. Its boundaries varied. For the policy of the empire toward Gypsies    See Germany; Joseph II;… …

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  • 53Holy Roman Empire — Ho′ly Ro′man Em′pire n. why a Germanic empire located chiefly in central Europe, considered as beginning with the coronation of Charlemagne in a.d. 800 or of Otto the Great in a.d. 962 and lasting until the renunciation of the crown by Francis II …

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  • 54Holy Roman Empire — I. noun Date: 1728 an empire consisting primarily of a loose confederation of German and Italian territories under the suzerainty of an emperor and existing from the 9th or 10th century to 1806 II. geographical name realm of varying extent in… …

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  • 55Holy Roman Empire — noun a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon • Hypernyms: ↑political unit, ↑political entity • Part Holonyms: ↑Europe …

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  • 56Roman Empire (disambiguation) — Roman Empire usually refers to the government centered in Rome and in its successor capitals on the Italian peninsula from 27 BC to 395 AD.Roman Empire may also refer to:*Roman Republic (6th century 1st century BC) *Eastern Roman Empire (330… …

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  • 57Roman Empire — Roman Em|pire the Roman Empire the countries of Europe, north Africa, and western Asia that were ruled by the ancient Romans from around 44 ↑BC until ↑AD 395, when the ↑empire was divided into two parts. The Western Roman Empire continued until… …

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  • 58Western Roman Empire — Roman Empire, Western Part Imperium Romanum Division of the Roman Empire ← …

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  • 59List of Holy Roman Empresses and German queens — Holy Roman Empress or Empress of the Holy Roman Empire is the title given to the consort of the Holy Roman Emperor. The elective dignity of Holy Roman Emperor was restricted to males only, therefore there was never a Holy Roman Empress regnant,… …

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  • 60Roman Empire — 1. the lands and peoples subject to the authority of ancient Rome. 2. the form of government established in ancient Rome in 27 B.C., comprising the Principate or Early Empire (27 B.C. A.D. 284) and the Autocracy or Later Empire (A.D. 284 476). 3 …

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