Holy Roman Empire: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of polities during the Middle Ages and a successor to East Francia. The Empire originated with the incoronation of Otto the I in 962 and was dissolved in 1806 by Napoleon. It started as an union of a few kingdoms (Italy and Burgundy) and several German Stem Duchies (Bavaria, Saxony, Swabia, etc). The polities of the Holy Roman Empire systematically fragmented. Most of the polities were factually independent as they waged war against other polities of the Empire or even against the Empire itself. Large portions of the Empire were slowly absorbed by large Countries in or outside the Empire like the Burgundian Netherlands, France the Habsburg Domains, Brandenburg-Prussia etc. As a confederation, it was followed by the Confederation of the Rhine and by the German Confederation (both in the XIX century). What remained of the Empire was basically divided between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire by 1871. In Phersu Atlas only territories under proven control of the Empire are categorized as such. These territories are very few (mostly militarly occupied territories) as most of the territories that may be considered "imperial" are categorized in more specific polities: the Habsburg Domains, the Imperial Possessions (territories in the Empire owned by the Emperor), and Imperial cities (that are treated individually). All the polities of the Holy Roman Empire are treated as independent in the model, with the exception of the specific section Holy Roman Empire section of the political maps where all the German Confederations are marked with a red thick line. In this section the imperial territories are yellow and the ecclesiastic territories purple.