The Holy Roman Empire was finally dissolved when Napoleon, commanding the first modern national army, steamrolled the coalition opposing him at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805.

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 ...

The Roman Empire reached its greatest size under the reign of Trajan in 117 AD. To aid in administration, it was divided into provinces. The number of provinces changed over time as territories ...

Netflix's The Witcher features several medieval-style kingdoms including, Nilfgaard, the empire trying to kill Ciri of Cintra. Search. ... and their military garb after the later Holy Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was a strange concoction, then. And it was so right from the start. ... ruling an empire composed of discrete kingdoms inhabited by different peoples.

But the Holy Roman Empire had no core, because it never possessed a clear centre of government or even an official capital. Instead, power was always multiple and plural. The management of daily ...