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    Holy Roman Empire - Wikipedia

    • Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor The Hohenstaufen-ruled Holy Roman Empire and Kingdom of Sicily at its greatest extent under Frederick II. Imperial and directly held Hohenstaufen lands in the Empire are shown in bright yellow. See more

    Overview

    The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in … See more

    Name and general perception

    Since Charlemagne, the realm was merely referred to as the Roman Empire. The term sacrum ("holy", in the sense of "consecrated") in connection with the medieval Roman Empire was used beginning i… See more

    History

    As Roman power in Gaul declined during the 5th century, local Germanic tribes assumed control. In the late 5th and early 6th centuries, the Merovingians, under Clovis I and his successors, consolidated Frankish tribes and … See more

    Demographics

    Overall population figures for the Holy Roman Empire are extremely vague and vary widely. The empire of Charlemagne may have had as many as 20 million people. Given the political fragmentation of the later E… See more

    Institutions

    The Holy Roman Empire was neither a centralized state nor a nation-state. Instead, it was divided into dozens – eventually hundreds – of individual entities governed by kings, dukes, counts, bishops, abbots, and other rulers… See more

    Imperial families and dynasties

    Some constituencies of the Holy Roman Empire had additional royal or imperial territories that were, sometimes from the outset, outside the jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire. Henry VI, inheriting both German as… See more

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    Overview
    Name and general perception
    History
    Demographics
    Institutions
    Imperial families and dynasties
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