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Western Roman Empire
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The Western Roman Empire, often abbreviated WRE, refers to the western half of the Roman Empire following its administrative division in 395 CE upon the death of Emperor Theodosius I. While the Eastern Roman Empire, centered at Constantinople, continued to flourish for another millennium as the Byzantine Empire, the West experienced a protracted decline marked by internal instability, economic fragmentation, and continuous external pressure from migrating Germanic peop…