It was around this time the Italians finally stopped giving a shit about Rome
nobody stopped giving a shit about rome. for millennia after the longobards, northern europeans would still larp as romans as far as the 19th century. rome is the eternal city for a fucking reason.
>>18547114Ancient Rome worship was pretty much dead in the Middle Ages, until at least the 1300s.
>>18547110Italian finally free from Rome imperial
>>18547128shut up varg, die in the heatwave you leeching boomer.
When did London become THE city
>>18547114Nobody called themselves Roman in the 19th century
>>18547165Except Francis I, emperor of romans.
>>18547180He was Emperor of the Romans but he did not consider himself to be a Roman
>>18547120Rome itself was pretty much dead for much of the Middle Ages. It had the Pope, usually, but other than that it was a ghost town. By the 530s/540s, the population was insignificant, no more than that of a village due to the devastation of the Gothic Wars. By around 1000-1300 the population of the city had recovered a bit, but only to 30,000 or 40,000 inhabitants, which was low compared to other major cities at the time, like Cairo (300,000), Paris (160,000), Baghdad (150,000), Milan (150,000), Genoa (100,000), et cetera. It's only in the Renaissance, around the time of the Counter-Reformation, that Rome became an important urban center again.
>>18547187Like Leo the Turkic?
>>18547666?
>>18547180The "Holy" part of "Holy Roman Empire" refers to the Roman Catholic Faith, whose legitimacy to lead given by the pope allows them the historical right to rule rome proper, it was a political-religious relationship, none of the subjects or the leaders themselves thought themselves the same as the roman republic, they saw the extent to which they inherited legacy of such as constricted to the church.
>>18547668>?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_IV_the_Khazar
>>18547830I guess bro
>>18547643It was one of the few cities who had walls too big for herself in the middle ages, the roman walls became so distant from the inhabited center, after the depopulation, that there were vast swathes of countryside inside its old city walls. Imagine going outside Rome for a walk in the uncouth nature and still being surrounded by ancient roman walls.
>>18547110rome was already became irrelevant during roman empire
Rome is a cautionary tale. This great and evil empire, which accomplished so much, was reduced to rubble by the Lord. This is the terrible fate which awaits every people who do not fear the Lord
>>18548571they adopted christcuckism and became shit
>>18548573False nonsense
>>18547110Lombard monkeys constantly larped as the true heirs of roman legacy and spent their entire existence trying to snuff out the Eastern Imperial exarchate. By the time finally did it however, they got violently mogged and destroyed themselves by the Franks
>>18547110Romonkeys will not like this, but the Lombarda were decisive to bleach again the population of Italy. Centuries of empire made generations of decadent brown easterlings (mostly greeks and syrians) migrating in many areas of the peninsula, especially around Rome, to the point the senatorial families of asiatic origins became a powerfull lobby within the late empire Roman Senate. With the lombards and later the franks/normans the italian returned more similar to the original genetic background of the Iron Age Italics
>>18548596which part didn't happen?
