11-10-2008, 03:31 PM
Quote:An easier question to answer is: when did Rome finally stop being imperial?
The answer to this being between 29 April and 1 May 1357. At this time the Papal States in the 'Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ' promulgated their own law code and the territory of Rome stopped having a legal connection to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
Sounds rinky-dink to me. If you accept Rome being founded in 753 BC, that'd make Republican through Imperial Rome 2110 years old.
Not bad.
TARBICvS/Jim Bowers
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