In Europe the Roman Empire covered the following modern day countries or parts of modern countries:
Western Europe: Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland south of the river Rhine, southern Germany and part of central Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and England and Wales.
Eastern Europe: western Hungary, part of western Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, FYROM, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, part of Romania, Moldova and a slither of western Ukraine.
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Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, the Dalmatian coast (in present day Croatia), Albania, Greece, the west and much of the northern coast of Turkey, Syria, coastal Libya, Tunisia, and a small bit of eastern Algeria. In 30 BC Octavian (later called Augustus) defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra and seized Egypt . He was soon to annex many other areas.
The Roman Empire covered the following modern day countries or parts of modern countries:
Western Europe:Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland south of the river Rhine, southern Germany and part of central Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and England and Wales.
Eastern Europe: western Hungary, part of western Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, part of Romania, Moldova and a slither of western Ukraine.
Asia: Turkey, Cyprus, Armenia, northern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Jordan, and the northern part of the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia.
Africa: Egypt, the coastal part of Libya, Tunisia, the coastal part of Algeria, and northern Morocco.
Many European nations base their law on Roman systems. So do most Latin American countries, which were once European colonies. Roman law has also influenced the Unites States. Many principles of the Roman Republic, such as equal justice under the law, became part of the American system of government.
The were were more than four European countries which were never part of the Roman Empire. They were: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Ireland and Iceland. Most of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Moldova were not part of the Roman Empire, which only included slithers of these areas. Most of Germany was not part of the Roman Empire, which covered only the south. Hungary east of the River Danube was not part of the Roman Empire either.
The Greco-Roman period refers to the culture of the peoples who were incorporated into the Roman Republic & Roman EmpireRoman culture means the culture of the Romans, just as American culture means the culture of the Americans, British culture means the culture of the British, French culture is the culture of the French, etc. Roman means the people who live in Rome. The Romans conquered a large empire in antiquity The term Greco-Roman refers to the fact that ancient Roman culture was deeply influenced by Greek culture. It means Greek-Roman.
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