Thread:Kalašnjikov/@comment-30924651-20170304224532/@comment-30924651-20170305202743

" Russian lands in the Roman Republic/Empire was just the Crimea and maybe Abkhazia."

1. Abkhazia is independent state.

2. It is not about territory. It is about spirit.

" Rome's religions were the pagan pantheon copied from the Greeks and a generic Christianism. Orthodoxy and Catholicism split AFTER the fall of the Western Empire."

1. Most of nations were pagan once.

2. From view of Orthodoxy Christianity and Orthodoxy are same thing. So Roman Empire was Orthodox.

" Julius Caesar still ruled in a republic. The one you're seeking for is his son-nephew Octavianus Augustus, the first of the Emperors."

If he would not be assasinated he would probably become a monarch.

" The eagle (double-headed or single-headed) was always associated with civilized power and many countries used it. Was Germany Rome just because it had a double-headed eagle?"

Eagle was not "symbol of civilization". It was also oftenly used by barbarians. Sometimes it was a symbol of scy and heaven, sometimes it was symbol of fast attack.

But double-headed eagle was mostly associated with Roman Empire. Was Germany Roman? Well, it tried to be and used double-headed eagle because of it.

" EDIT: the Xth Rome shit is just propaganda invented by historical leaders to claim something but Moscow has nothing to do with Rome, beside the seven hills. Even Italy once reclaimed to be the Third Rome under fascism regime."

1. IIIth Rome, not Xth.

2. Russia was declarated Third Roman Empire because it was last independent Orthodox state. But there was also another argument. Ivan III the Gread married Sofia/Zoe Palaiolog. Palaiologes were last ruling dynasty of Roman Empire. And in these times territory and ethnic of population meant almost nothing. And if we will take this with that Russia was only independent Orthodox state, and plus that Russia became largest state on the Earth during the rule of Ivan (Ioann) IV... why not?