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@AbdullahOblong2 @lefineder You might be right @AbdullahOblong2

@Metatron471 @lefineder I would also venture a guess that there were no legions in Gaul because Rome may have claimed it, but their control was through German tribes who bended knee to Rome only as long as Rome was a benefit or threat.

Strength of the Roman army around 400 AD, according to the Notitia Dignitatum, a register of civil and military administrative posts dated to the early 5th century.

@Clint_Davey1 @Leoxivenjoyer Or simply Daniel alludes="Kingdom of God" (Christianity spreading) coming w Roman Empire(strong then weak).Speculations=(feet of clay?) modern west&Russia.+Where does islam fit in?(they want to claim Kingdom of God as them.But is it st on earth?).Daniel nailed coming of Messiah

@Leoxivenjoyer The rock is Christ/Peter. WW1 is when the Roman Empire truly ends.

Yes, Rome is the kingdom of iron. And the feet of the statue - iron mixed with clay - are the post-Roman barbarian successor states. There are two legs - Eastern and Western empires. In the West, you have the Holy Roman Empire ruled by a Kaiser (Caesar). In the East, the Russian Empire ruled by a Tsar (Caesar). This prophecy takes you all the way to WW1.

@Clint_Davey1 @Leoxivenjoyer Roman Empire ended 1453 (or 1462 Trabzon/Moreas) AD. An Empire at least up to 1204AD. It was a mediterranean Empire. Others who conquered it or took religion from it in foreign lands are not it. Else the Ottomans should have claim(Mehmet II=Kayser i Rum).Russian empire=still here

@Clint_Davey1 Neither the "Holy Roman Empire" nor the Russian Empire were Roman. Both were states of people considered by Romans barbarians (Germanics+Slavs).Former in west, conquered the there R. Empire(+German lands Empire had not),the other a slavic state that took religion from East Rome

@ulrichspeck Europe cannot do much on AI even if it overcomes its regulation obsession. It needs plentiful cheap energy. And it is not one nation with one will.

The obsession with sovereignty -- against the US -- will lead to further marginalization of Europe. "Siemens boss says Europe risks ‘disaster’ from prioritising AI independence" ft.com/content/d66e85…

@ulrichspeck As you say it will lead first to further marginalization but then eventually (for security/cultural necessities) to gradual full absorption by a US that will create the first western superstate (like Rome for Hellenistic world) to compete w China and Russia.

@mualphaxi How did it lasted longer than Roman Republic+Empire when Roman Empire alone was eventually extinguished 1453/62 AD and you could talk of Empire at least up to 1204AD(4th Crusade diminishing its status)? Venice was a child of East Rome and St.Mark typical Byzantine style church

My Roman Empire is actually The Most Serene Republic of Venice. *1100 years*. It lasted longer than the Roman Republic and Empire combined. Scores of colonies all the way to Cyprus, fabulous wealth, totally unique culture, all from a city built in the middle of a lagoon.

Location of Roman legions according to the Notitia Dignitatum.

@AbdullahOblong2 @lefineder Germans came mostly from the Danube at that time to threaten Balkans (Constantinople) and Italy directly.

@lefineder Gotta love all the legions protecting Gaul from the Germans.

@dpheneghan1 @lefineder Big problem at the time was on the Danube and permanently east with Sassanians.

Why none on the Rhine? This can' be right, must be missing documentation. So many on the Danube and squaring off against Persia. Africa and Spain were still enjoying that Pax Romana. Curious, from other sources it was said that Spain was very secure with just one legion dedicated to the entire country, but why in the 4th century did the people of Lugo feel it necessary to surround the entire town with impressive fortifications. The Bagudae were already a thing but if the insecurity was that bad wouldn't it have made sense to send more legions to Spain. Anyway, interesting stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_wal…

The White House is (truly) winning the oil jawboning battle against Tehran — still to be seen if Trump would win the physical oil market war. But to see Brent trading at sub-$100 a barrel (and WTI below $90) after 25 days of Hormuz almost full closure is almost surreal.

@Ecuyer_ @Ioannis_490 No they would not be astonished but I am pointing out that even their official name was chosen to address a need. Not organic as it comes in Greek.

@Metatron471 @Ioannis_490 The point is they would not be astonished or embarrassed by the use of their official name.

The astonishment - and even embarrassment - of the French and the Swiss, when I tell them that my language carries such a capital of memory that we still call them by their ancient names, the ones they themselves have forgotten. Gauls and Helvetii.

@Ecuyer_ @Ioannis_490 Swiss picked the Latin Confoederatio Helvetica as a neutral official middle solution to their multi languages.Point is: In Greek today the ancient (Greco)Roman names are still preserved: Gallia (France=from Germanic Franks), Helvetia(Switzerland), Germania(as in English too)

@Ioannis_490 The Swiss wouldn't be astonished or embarrassed they call their country Confoederatio Helvetica.

@nonregemesse 10th c. anyone? youtube.com/watch?v=25Xo2W…

Drawing the aesthetics of antiquity into the early Middle Ages is compelling. I was disappointed to learn this was all abandoned by the 7th century

@Tom_Rowsell @nonregemesse Gauls were simply Romans since long by then (despite still maintaining in parallel to latinization-hellenization for those settled in anatolia- gallic language, as St Jerome revealed for Gauls in Gallia+Galatians in central Anatolia). The Romans fielding legions of the west.

@nonregemesse Very likely to be a Gaul or German

A Roman officer of the 4th century AD

@superclanker @nonregemesse I forgot to tell you actually few of soldiers in the original pictures (4th c.) posted above still wear hamata (chain mail). It was hard to die. Others wear the more fanciful colored scale.

@Metatron471 @nonregemesse I see Do you have a historically accurate picture?

The Roman army of the 4th century AD

@superclanker @nonregemesse Btw Greeks earlier had muscular metal armors but also had their cost effective mass used compressed linen cuirasses (like Romans later chain mail .Yes compressed linen was effective). Even Alexander the Great in the surviving mosaic from Pompey wears one) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linothorax

@superclanker @nonregemesse Generals and high ranking officers probably wore more the old Greek full metal muscular armor (musculata). I guess scale armor would again not be looked down upon especially by 4th c.

@superclanker @nonregemesse Take a look here for later East Roman (aka "Byzantine") scale armors (like earlier squamata). Heavy cavalry used the heaviest of those. hellenicarmors.gr/en/armors/byza…

@superclanker @nonregemesse The point is the scale armor you see on 4th c. AD soldiers in the pics is high class, quite effective and easier to maintain than segmental. And continued massively for long as standard into the Eastern Roman armies.