Roman Empire (disambiguation)

The Roman Empire usually refers to the post-republican, autocratic government period of Roman civilization, centered on the city of Rome on the Italian peninsula from 27 BC to 330 AD, and in Constantinople on the Bosporus from 330 to 1453 AD.

Roman Empire may also refer to:

  • Ancient Rome (753 BC – 476 AD), the entire period of ancient Roman civilization, including the Kingdom, Republic and part of the Imperial periods
  • Kingdom of Rome (753 BC-509 BC), the poorly known earliest stage of Roman civilization
  • Roman Republic (509 BC – 27 BC), the period of the ancient Roman civilization when its government operated as a republic
  • Roman Empire (27 BC-395 AD before division)
    • The two administrative divisions of the empire during the "late" imperial period:
      • Eastern Roman Empire (395–1453), or the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, juridically simply the "Roman Empire" after 480 AD
      • Western Roman Empire (395–476/480), the western half of the Roman Empire
    • Short-lived breakaway states of the Roman Empire:
  • Roman States (754-1870), more commonly known as the Papal States and officially as the State of the Church, were the states under rule of the Pope and Roman Catholic Church
  • Carolingian Empire (800–888), officially known as the Empire of Romans and Franks, the empire of Charlemagne and his successors, crowned as "Emperors of the Romans" by the Pope
  • Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe and successor of the Carolingian Empire. Claimant successor to the Western Roman Empire
  • Latin Empire (1204–1261), officially known as the Empire of Romania, a crusader state centered on Constantinople established after the Fourth Crusade
  • Roman Republic (1798-1799), a short-lived client state of the First French Republic
  • Roman Republic (1849), another short-lived state based on the original Triumvirate style government used in Ancient Rome

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