At its height around 100 AD, the Roman Empire stretched from Britain in the Northwest to Egypt in the Southeast. ... the Holy Roman Empire didn’t have very much to do with the original Roman Empire.

SUMMITS were more fun in those days. When Ferdinand III, the Habsburg monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, arrived in Regensburg, the Brussels of its time, in late 1652, he brought 60 musicians and ...

The Holy Roman Empire was a labyrinth of hundreds of tiny princedoms, duchies, bishoprics and independent city states, each with its own jurisdictions and special patterns of allegiance. Yet ...