A modern surviving rome

Well, the task here is to create a roman state that can trace it's roots directly to the roman empire, similar to modern countries like Iran and china. A Italian rome will be ideal.


So is it possible?
 
Well neither modern turkey, greece nor Italy has called itself a direct successor state to rome, or it is the roman empire.


And also, I mean a modern nation where the roman nation will be centered on Italy.
 
A wierd possibility that occured to me: the US founders drew at least some of their inspiration from the Roman Republic; maybe they're a little blatant with it and eventually declare the US to be Rome reborn. Of course, that would be rather bizzare since the US has nothing resembling political or territorial continuity with Rome, but that's why I classified it as a strange idea.

For something a little more plausible, Garibaldi briefly established a Roman Republic in the Papal States during the chaos of 1848-49. If Austria stays occupied with Hungary and the radicals claim Italy I could see an Italian state unifying under Garibaldi and retaining the name Roman Republic ... not sure if it would have much common with the real Rome beyond name and location though.

On a not really related note, supposedly the Italian army actually had a few incidents where units were punished by being decimated after the Battle of Caporetto in World War I...
 
Actually, such a state exists!

The Vatican is a linear descendant of the Roman Empire, based from the Bishop of Rome. Although a micro-state in every definition of the word, the Vatican really can claim to be the distant successor to the Roman Empire, with an army of faithful and influential, not coercive, powers. Besides, the heavy usage of Latin, etc, etc, etc...

Oh, and its located in Rome itself.:D Wow, I'm on fire today.

The problem is that Rome is as much Geography as Political. Byzantium was definitely an outgrowth of "Rome" but it was very clearly a whole different player for a far longer time. Byzantium is much more "Greece" than "Rome" if it must be said.

It might be borderline ASB, but what about a Roman Noble Family that survived to the modern day? You could claim a chain of continuity for two thousand years. That would be very interesting--but considering how many royal families can and do date back from the middle ages, I suppose that this is possible in one way or another--perhaps the Family moved to Byzantium and then Regained Prominence in 11th Century Italy?
 
Actually, such a state exists!

The Vatican is a linear descendant of the Roman Empire, based from the Bishop of Rome. Although a micro-state in every definition of the word, the Vatican really can claim to be the distant successor to the Roman Empire, with an army of faithful and influential, not coercive, powers. Besides, the heavy usage of Latin, etc, etc, etc...

Oh, and its located in Rome itself.:D Wow, I'm on fire today.

The problem is that Rome is as much Geography as Political. Byzantium was definitely an outgrowth of "Rome" but it was very clearly a whole different player for a far longer time. Byzantium is much more "Greece" than "Rome" if it must be said.

It might be borderline ASB, but what about a Roman Noble Family that survived to the modern day? You could claim a chain of continuity for two thousand years. That would be very interesting--but considering how many royal families can and do date back from the middle ages, I suppose that this is possible in one way or another--perhaps the Family moved to Byzantium and then Regained Prominence in 11th Century Italy?

Vactian is religious office of rome that survive, not the empire, nor the state.

The creation of the holy roman empire can sort of be an argument that the vactian has given up it's imperial power to another nation.


And the reason why it is after 1900? Cause I want to see how can a roman country survive to modern day, and what political influence does it have in a modern day world.
 
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