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The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved 220 years ago today

• A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
  It was the greatest state to ever exist. "Live and Let Live" was, for generations, a Habsburg principle. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg -- noting "the centuries-old Habsburg principle of "live and let live" among ethnic groups, peoples, minorities, religions, cultures and languages.") The ethnic states which gradually replaced the HRE in Central Europe were, and remain, total disasters in comparison. Modern Germany is, yet again, a powder keg. Today we pour one out for the HRE.
  • throwaway_7274 2mo ago
    I didn’t know there were HREaboos out there. Please, how do I take this pill?
  • comrade1234 2mo ago
    lol. Unless you were a Swiss farmer and dared to not want to live under their thumb.
• FuturisticLover 2mo ago
  Only 220 years ago? I thought it was close to 500 to 600 years.
  • throwaway_7274 2mo ago
    Maybe you’re thinking of the Eastern Roman Empire, which, unlike the HRE, was actually a continuation of the classical state?
    • FuturisticLover 2mo ago
      I am not sure about the Eastern Roman Empire. But I thought the Roman Empire ended with the fall of Constantinople.
      • throwaway_7274 2mo ago
        Yep, that’s the one!
• gerikson 2mo ago
  "Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" -- Voltaire, allegedly.