The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, ... not a crime, and it focuses on illicit sex, not conversation in the modern English sense of the word. ... flag burning, and the like).

Long before becoming the national flag of Denmark, the red-and-white flag was used by the Portuguese Order of Christ during an early 14th century crusade against the Moors as well as being adopted by ...

In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

The birth of the Holy Roman Empire—and the unlikely king who ruled it. The fall of Rome led to chaos in Western Europe. Enter Carolus Magnus, more commonly known as Charlemagne, who sought to ...

Charlemagne’s successors built what came to be known as the Holy Roman Empire. Between 962 and 1806, it would control most of modern-day Germany and portions of modern-day France, Italy, and ...

This week was a big one, as yesterday's Tinto Maps post was the grand heart of early modern Europe: The Holy Roman Empire. Historical strategy fans long knew that this would be an immense ...

Elon Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, compared modern civilization to the Roman Empire on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, early Monday. And Musk used a meme to ...

Anne McElvoy is joined in Aachen, Germany, by Prof Rosamond McKitterick to explore how Charlemagne managed to run his vast empire. Show more In the second of three programmes, Anne McElvoy ...

Its flag included a variation of the two-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire and the shield of Moscow over three horizontal stripes of white, blue and red. Flag of Argentina, 1818 ...