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The Holy Roman Empire was actually in Germany and was named so by a pope after Charlemagne or Charles the Great conquered most of Europe and became Christan.

The Roman Empire, from around 750 BC, began as a kingdom, then a republic, and finally an empire by around 30 BC, encompassing the entire region around the Mediterranean Sea, including as far west as Portugal and north to the British Isles, west surrounding the Black Sea to Armenia and Mesopotamia, to the south encompassed the northern coast of Africa and all of Egypt. Once Roman military conquest had been accomplished, Roman occupation establish the Latin language, legal system, and culture to these lands and was the origin of what is today referred to as "Western Culture".

The Holy Roman Empire included Germany and the part of Italy ruled by Germany between 800 AD to around 1800. Charlemagne, King of the Franks (which was the territory formerly known as Gaul, approximately France and Germany of today) traveled to Rome, where Pope Leo III on Christmas Day in 800, unexpectedly crowned him Emperor of the Romans. This put Charlemagne in direct competition with the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople. Charlemagne's empire included the Germanic empire and that part of Italy controlled by the Germans. From this point on, there is a constant power struggle between the Pope in Rome and the German empire which eventually leads to the decline in the power of the Catholic Church and the rise of Protestantism.

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The Roman Empire began about 27BC and lasted until 476 AD as the western Roman Empire. By that time the original empire had split with the remaining portion being the Byzantine Empire in the east. The Byzantine Empire endured until 1453 when it was defeated by the Ottoman Turks. These Roman Empires encompassed the entire Mediterranean Basin ( all the way around the Mediterranean).

The Holy Roman Empire's first emperor was Otto I crowned in 962 AD. It was an empire of central Europe not the Mediterranean Basin. It was based on the Germanic peoples not Latins It lasted until until the last Emperor Francis II who abdicated and dissolved the Empire in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.

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A Big Difference. The Holy Roman Empire of King Fredrick I was in no ways Roman in Culture, Militaristic views, power, etc. It is only similair in the fact that both the Holy Roman Empire & The Roman Empire have Roman in their name, and that they both controlled the City of Rome, even though the Holy Roman Empire shared Rome with the Papal States.

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The Roman empire began in 27 B.C. when Octavian was given the title Augustus and Emperor. It is the traditional Roman Empire we think of and lasted until A.D. 476. After that, it was split into the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), and the Western Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was a German empire that existed in central europe from 962 to 1806.

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The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of small kingdoms of what today is Poland, Belgium, parts of France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy and lasted from 962 AD until dissolved by Napoleon I in 1806.

The Roman Empire controlled most of the what was then the known world at its most highest point and lasted from 780 BC till 1453.

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The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

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They were two totally different empires and they existed at different historical times. The Holy Roman Empire was founded by Otto I, a German king and the first Holy Roman Emperor. It was a Medieval empire founded in 962, some 500 years after the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire. It was centred on Germany and it included Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, part of eastern France, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) Slovenia and northern and central Italy.

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Basically the name "Holy Roman Empire" is a misnomer because it was none of those things. The Pope hated the Holy Roman Empire, it wasn't Roman (it was German), nor was it an empire.

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The Roman empire was the greatest empire of the ancient world. The Holy Roman empire was a medieval entity, which was neither holy, Roman or an empire.

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