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Western Roman Empire

Roman Empire
Senatus Populusque Romanus
Imperium Romanum
Western division of the Roman Empire
285–476


Tremissis depicting Flavius Julius Nepos (474-480),
the de jure last Emperor of the Western Court

The Western Roman Empire at its greatest extent ca. AD 395
Capital Mediolanum
(286–402)

Ravenna
(402–476)
Languages Latin (official)
Koine Greek, Aquitanian, Gaulish, Common Brittonic, Gothic, Neo-Punic
Religion Roman religion until 380
Christianity (state church) after 380
Government ,
Tetrarchy
(293–313)
Emperor
 •  395–423 Honorius
 •  457–461 Majorian
 •  475–476 Romulus Augustulus
Consul
 •  395 Flavius Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius, Flavius Anicius Probinus
 •  476 Basiliscus, Flavius Armatus
Legislature Roman Senate
Historical era Late Antiquity
 •  Division of Diocletianus 285
 •  Division after Constantine I 337
 •  Division by Valentinian I 364
 •  Division after Theodosius I 395
 •  Deposition of Romulus Augustus 4 September 476
Area
 •  395 2,000,000 km² (772,204 sq mi)
Currency Roman currency
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Dio coin3.jpg Roman Empire
Kingdom of Italy (476-493)
Visigothic Kingdom
Domain of Soissons
Domain of Moor
Sub-Roman Britain
Kingdom of Burgundy
Francia
Vandal Kingdom
Alamannia
Suebic Kingdom of Galicia
Armorica
San Marino
Today part of


Tremissis depicting Flavius Julius Nepos (474-480),
the de jure last Emperor of the Western Court

In historiography, the Western Roman Empire consists of the western provinces of the Roman Empire at any one time during which they were administered by a separate independent Imperial court, coequal with (or only nominally subordinate to) that administering the eastern half. Both "Western Roman Empire" and "Eastern Roman Empire" (or "Byzantine Empire") are modern terms describing de facto independent entities; however, at no point did Romans consider the Empire split into two, but rather considered it a single state governed by two separate Imperial courts out of administrative expediency. The view that the Empire was impossible to govern by one emperor was established by Diocletian following the disastrous civil wars and disintegration of the Crisis of the 3rd century, and was instituted in Roman law by his introduction of the Tetrarchy in AD 285, a form of government which was legally to endure in one form or another for centuries. The Western Court was periodically abolished and recreated for the next two centuries until final abolition by the Emperor Zeno in 480, by which time there was little effective central control left in the area legally administered by the Western Court.


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