OT: How small is your hometown?

[Fyron]

The "Holy Roman Empire" was the collection of Eurpopean countries that were predominantly Catholic during the Dark Ages, Middle Ages and some later periods of time (i forget exactly when). It did not exist during the time of the Roman Empire. It was fabricated at a later date by the Catholic Church and the monarchist governments of that era. And it was most definitely not a political "empire," it was a religious one.

[TerranC]

Actually, The Holy roman empire was at first was an attempt at bringing the Roman Empire back from the ashes of the former one, when the "Holy" Church hijacked it to match the strength of the Byzantine Empire.

After that, the New Roman Empire kept changing directions, where it was at first at rome, then france (King Karl of the Franks), then to germany before it's fall.

Barbarossa would be spinning in his grave...