RETVRN to a time when the Franks and Bulgarians were in charge, as things should be!
Don't tell Balkans twitter about the Bulgarian part they'll be fighting for weeks
This just looks like essentially the Western Roman Empire.
What's the dividing line between calling it the Roman Empire vs the Frankish? (Actual question)
Frankish Empire is a completely different entity that was established after collapse of the Western Roman Empire by Germanic migratory tribe. Though they actually claimed to be a legitimate inheritors of Rome after Charlemagne's coronation as the Emperor of the Romans in 800.
Alongside what CyborgMarx said, the Frankish Empire were German invaders rather than any sort of continuation of the Roman Empire. They also didn't really control Rome, which stayed in the hands of the Pope.
But yes, the intent was basically for it to be the successor to the Roman Empire. The Pope crowned Charlemagne as emperor because the Byzantines had an empress regnant which the Pope saw as illegitimate and therefore saw the title of emperor as forfeited.
I don't think he was actually called Roman emperor specifically(Nevermind, like kleeon said he was called "Emperor of the Romans"), but at that point "emperor" (well, "imperator") had only ever referred to the Roman emperor. It wasn't really a generic word like it is today.Regardless, afaik it's generally agreed by historians that the Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire (not just a successor, but a continuation). And that the Frankish Empire (and later "Holy" "Roman" "Empire") was not, nor was it a true successor.
Lack of cities, mobility, bulk international trade, a standardized army, plus significant population decline
I'm French and this scares me. Good thing Emperor Macron does not have this much land and subjects
I have a vague, underdeveloped theory that the Germanic people are responsible for most of the horrific shit that came out of Europe, especially colonialism and imperialism, since the fall of Rome and to this day. The Frankish Empire would be a root of that.
On top of Germans obviously and the horrors they've done, the English are of course Anglo-Normans, i.e. Germanic. The Netherlands and Belgium are fairly straightforward. But even the Romance speaking colonizer countries can be traced back to Germans. France comes from the Franks, and was born alongside Germany from the split of the Frankish Empire. Italy was invaded by Ostrogoths, Lombards, and later Normans in the south. Spain and Portugal are descended from the Visigothic Kingdom.
And of course the modern imperialist power
is just an offshoot of the Anglo-Normans.This is basically my personal running joke that the German people are the source for all evil in the world
Yeah, it basically started as a running joke like that, but I'm starting to internalize it.
It's kinda a joke but the first thing the Germans did after unification was proceed to stop fighting each other and start fighting everyone else.
Just keep them distracted with beer and music and hopefully they'll leave the rest of us alone.
The Kingdom of Asturias was founded by a Visigoth, and later kingdoms ultimately stem from it.
