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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] PugJesus 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Explanation: Roman coloniae were built in a very orderly and rational fashion, as planned cities with a grid of streets and the best position possible. Such coloniae were built to imitate Rome as closely as possible - in style, in local government, in the forums and arenas and temples. One might be tempted to think that their glories would pale to Rome itself! But the city of Rome was a few farming villages which, bit by bit, morphed into the largest city in the world at the time. It was infamous, even to Roman writers, as a clogged labyrinth with narrow streets and winding roads; a metropolis of filth shadowed over by hundreds of years of architectural marvels.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How did Constantinople compare?

[–] PugJesus 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Better, I believe, though it also had problems with sprawl from growth. Back when it was Byzantium it got razed to the ground and rebuilt by Emperor Septimius Severus, so they had a clean slate to start from. I'm not real well informed on the topic of Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul, though.

[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople 3 points 6 months ago