roman empire

Noun
  1. An empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire;
    At its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome (synset 108818110)
    domain member region:
    • ancients - people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)
    • prefecture - the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire)
    is an instance of: empire, imperium - the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised
    member holonym: roman - an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire
    has:
    is a part of:
    • africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
    • asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
    • europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

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