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1. Holy Roman Empire

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   The Holy Roman Empire (Latin: Sacrum Romanum Imperium; German: Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a complex political entity in Western and Central Europe that existed for much of the period from the early Middle Ages until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. Often described retrospectively as neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire in the modern sense, its legitimacy was derived from the concept of translatio imperii—the transfer of the authority of the ancient Roman Empire. It…