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.

Was a polity that controlled the territories around the Mediterranean Sea. It was a successor to the Roman Republic that had ended after the civil war between Antony and Octavian. After winning the civil war Octavian became the first emperor. In the first period of the empire, the Principate (27 BC-284 AD) the Republican institutions continued to exist, and the Senate also had enough power to choose the Emperor at times (in particular, this was the case when there wasn't any clear successor). The Roman Empire ceased to exist when it was definitely divided in a Western Part and an Eastern Part in 395.