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To: Dallas59

1535 years left?

Pffft...Byzantium doesn't count as the "Roman Empire." Everyone knows that Rome, as a nation, ended in the 5th century. :-)

19 posted on 12/20/2005 6:50:24 AM PST by mike182d ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")

To: mike182d

The Byzantines considered themselves Romans. Rome was more of an idea than a nation or ethnic group and that idea never really died.

109 posted on 02/05/2006 9:42:35 AM PST by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)

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