Does the Roman Empire still reign?

'The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.' —Thomas Hobbes Vicars, chamberlains, prefects, dioceses, and many more are late Imperial court titles surviving in the Papal version of the Empire. Just to begin with. read more

The reign of Caligula stoked multiple Jewish uprisings against Roman rule from 37–41 A.D (the Crisis of Caligula), and the region didn’t offer many benefits. In 135 A.D after the third major Jewish rebellion, the emperor Hadrian renamed the province Syria Palaestina. read more

The Roman Empire (Latin: Imperium Rōmānum, Classical Latin: [ɪmˈpɛ.ri.ũː roːˈmaː.nũː]; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr. Basileia tōn Rhōmaiōn) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia. read more

The Fall of the Roman Empire. From 376-382 CE, Rome fought a series of battles against invading Goths known today as the Gothic Wars. At the Battle of Adrianople, 9 August 378 CE, the Roman Emperor Valens was defeated, and historians mark this event as pivotal in the decline of the Western Roman Empire. read more