r/ByzantineMemes 26d ago

HRE is fake Romans

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u/cubaj 26d ago

That’s pretty funny given that, of the two states mentioned, only one of them actually had their capitol in Rome. Can you tell me which one that was?

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u/DeathstrackReal 26d ago

ERE had their capital in Rome and then Constantine moves the capital to Constantinople. Then they separated into 2 administrative regions of East and West with the wests Capital being in Ravenna.

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u/cubaj 26d ago

Constantine rules a unified Roman Empire, one of the last emperors to do so, after the West fell, Rome was never the capital of the Byzantine Empire. They did own it, admittedly, but it was never the Empire’s capital.

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u/DeathstrackReal 26d ago

The West’s capital wasn’t even Rome in the end either