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Oh I reckoned something like that was the case. I didn't think they were fighting over who Rome's true successor was, I simply found the idea interesting that echoes of the Western and Eastern Empires were still fighting each other hundreds of years later.

Well...yes. The Falklands is distinctly British, far more so than even some of the United Kingdom's core regions after decades of mass immigration. If the home islands went totally tits up but the Falklands survived as an independent state then yes it would be a successor state, especially in...

I might argue that Venice is in some respects more deserving of that honour, if I have it right. The Holy Roman Empire was an attempt at restoring the Imperium Romanum under the auspices of the Roman Church, whilst Venice could be regarded as a more direct successor to Romanitas as it is...

At least, in so far as culture is concerned. As I understand it the Venetians bore some strange similarities to the Romans and Romanitas of yesteryear, likely as a result of Venice starting out life as a Roman refugee colony from the Lombards in the immediate century after the Western Empire's...