To: Dallas59
1535 years left?
Pffft...Byzantium doesn't count as the "Roman Empire." Everyone knows that Rome, as a nation, ended in the 5th century. :-)
19 posted on
12/20/2005 6:50:24 AM PST by
mike182d
("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
To: mike182d
The Byzantines considered themselves Romans. Rome was more of an idea than a nation or ethnic group and that idea never really died.
109 posted on
02/05/2006 9:42:35 AM PST by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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