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Western Empire   /wˈɛstərn ˈɛmpaɪər/   Listen
Western Empire

noun
1.
The western part after the Roman Empire was divided in 395; it lasted only until 476.  Synonym: Western Roman Empire.






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"Western Empire" Quotes from Famous Books



... this work, which brought the history to the fall of the western empire, was dedicated to a zealous friend of civil and religious liberty, but in a private station. What he, or any other friend of liberty in Europe, could only do by their good wishes, by writing, or by patriot suffering, you, Sir, are actually accomplishing, ...
— Priestley in America - 1794-1804 • Edgar F. Smith

... commonly been taken as the date of the "fall" of the Western Empire and of the beginning of the Middle Ages. What happened in that year was this. Since Theodosius the Great, in 395, had provided that his two sons should divide the administration of the Empire between them, most of the emperors of the West had proved weak and indolent rulers. ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson



Words linked to "Western Empire" :   geographic area, geographical area, Roman Empire, geographic region, geographical region



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