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Roman Empire
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period of ancient Rome following the Republic
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The Roman Empire was an empire and historical country. Its official languages were Latin and Ancient Greek. The state operated under various forms of government, including autocracy, monarchy, the Roman Tetrarchy, and triumvirate. The head of state held the office of Roman emperor. The Senate of the Roman Empire served as the legislative body.
The empire’s currency included the sestertius, denarius, aureus, and Roman currency. Its official religion encompassed ancient Roman religion, Christianity, paganism, and Arianism. The Roman Empire shared borders with the Parthian Empire and maintained diplomatic relations with the Han dynasty, Germania, and Hibernia. It contained administrative entities such as Creta et Cyrenaica, Dacia Mediterranea, Dacia Ripensis, and Hispania Ulterior. The native labels for the subject are Imperium Romanum and Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical country
- Part of
- Ancient Rome
- Has part
- Low Roman Empire
- Named after
- Rome
- Demonym
- Rómhánach
- Religion
- state church of the Roman Empire
- Participant in
- military history of ancient Rome
- Contains
- Arabia Petraea
- Continent
- Afro-Eurasia
- Capital
- Constantinople
- Official language
- Ancient Greek
- Currency
- as
- Population
- 87500000 (0014)
- Area
- 5957000
- Form of government
- absolute monarchy
- Legislature
- Senate of the Roman Empire
- Shares border with
- Parthian Empire
- Founded by
- Augustus
- Follows
- Roman Republic
- Image
- Inscription Theatre Leptis Magna Libya.JPG
- Flag
- vexillum
- Coat of arms
- Roman legion
- Said to be same as
- Byzantine Empire
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- Commons category
- Roman Empire
- topic's main category
- Category:Roman Empire
- history of topic
- history of the Roman Empire
- office held by head of state
- Roman emperor
- diplomatic relation
- Hibernia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from the Roman Empire
- Commons gallery
- Atlas of ancient Rome
- category for people born here
- Q32642796
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- native label
- Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων
- official religion
- Arianism
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0395-01-17
- replaced by
- Byzantine Empire
- replaces
- Roman Republic
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- Latin Empire
- time period
- classical antiquity
- end time
- 0395-00-00
- start time
- 0027-01-00
- language used
- Ancient Greek
- demographics of topic
- demographics of the Roman Empire
- P12749
- Paul Preuss
- P8168
- Driver 76
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