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Significant_Hold_910 t1_j4r1qv0 wrote

Which state that claimed to be the succesor of Rome had the most illegitemate claim?

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KingToasty t1_j4uw4ml wrote

Any of them. They're all former pieces of the Roman empire. There isn't any rulebook declaring what is and isn't authentically Roman.

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en43rs t1_j56b0hg wrote

Outside of the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire which is literally just the part of Rome that did not fell, any of them as other commenter said.

But I would add also the Catholic Church. It was the only institution of the Empire that survived in the West. (I'm not familiar with Eastern Orthodoxy but I'm sure you can argue the same thing for at least the Patriarch of Constantinople).

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