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Definition of Roman Empire

1. Noun. An empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome.

Definition of Roman Empire

1. Proper noun. An empire that used to exist between 27 (B.C.E.) and 476/1453 (C.E.); it encompassed territories stretching from Britain and Germany to North Africa and the Persian Gulf. ¹

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Literary usage of Roman Empire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"KИ pire was loosely connected on the west with the other half of the old Roman Empire. And so the development of Byzantine civilization resulted from three ..."

2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1920)
"Roman Civilization at its Zenith. § 3. Limitations of the Roman Mind. § 4. The Stir of the Great Plains. § 5. The Western (true Roman) Empire crumples up. ..."

3. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1904)
"See also BRYCE, The Holy Roman Empire, Chapter II, " The Roman Empire before the ... BURY, A History of the Later Roman Empire, A .D. 395-800, Book I, ..."

4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Our caption " Later Roman Empire in the West" or " Western Empire " must be understood as applying rather loosely to the peoples now under consideration. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In one sense the East Roman Empire was more lineally and really Roman than the West: it was absolutely continuous from ancient times. ..."

6. American Book Prices Current by Katherine Kyes Leab, Daniel J Leab (1905)
"History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Portrait and map. Lond., 1802. 12 vols.. 8vo. Cf., L., Jan. 25, '05 (439) $9. ..."

7. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1955)
"SLAVERY UNDER THE Roman Empire Much more definitely and completely than in the civil .... This is intimated in Barrow, RH, Slai'ery in the Roman Empire, 4, ..."

8. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"From Arcadius to John Palaeo- logus, from AD 395 to 1453, the Roman empire was continued at Constantinople—not as a theory and an idea, but as a simple and ..."

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