why was the roman empire and and army so called and not the italian empire and army.?

Answer 1

Italy didn't exist as a country until 1870. The peninsula we now call Italy was just a large number of principalities, city states and Vatican possessions. From the beginnings of history in the Mediterranean, Rome was a city state with its own distinctive approach to wealth, conquest, religion and so on. The Roman Empire was based on Rome and first had to subdue the rest of Italy. Dozens of princes, priests and foreign possessions were drawn into the Roman Empire but no one thought of it as Italian. There simply was no such place.

After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy as we know it slipped back into dozens of small principalities, city states and Vatican possessions. Naples was a kingdom, Venice a republic, Florence a dictatorship, Genoa a sort of democracy, the Vatican was a theocracy; and so on across the whole peninsula.

1300 years later, between 1805 and 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte intended to unify the country but, instead, appointed members of his family as monarchs of Naples, Rome, Piedmont and so on. There was no concept of Italy as a country.

Only in the 1860's, with the rise of Italian language nationalism, and especially the Red Shirts under Garibaldi's generalship, was there any suggestion of Italian unification. The Pope resisted the movement for many years until promised the autonomy of the Vatican State. This movement, known as the Risorgimento ("the Resurgence") gradually created a single Italian state under the leadership of Count Cavour.

That is why the Roman Empire was never known as the Italian Empire. Rome existed. Italy didn't.

Answer 2

Because Italy did not exist yet. The Roman empire was based from and started in the city of Rome, hence the name. Later, after the fall of the Roman empire the nation of Italy came into being.

Answer 3

The Latin term Imperium Romanum ("Roman Empire"), probably the best-known Latin expression where the word "imperium" denotes a territory, indicates the part of the world under Roman rule. From the time of Augustus to the Fall of the Western Empire, Rome dominated Western Eurasia and northern Africa and composed the majority of the region's population. Roman expansion began long before the state was changed into a monarchy and reached its zenith under Emperor Trajan with the conquest of Dacia in AD 106. At this territorial peak, the Roman Empire controlled approximately 5 900 000 km² (2,300,000 sq.mi.) of land surface. Rome's influence upon the culture, law, technology, arts, language, religion, government, military, and architecture of civilizations that followed continues to this day.

Answer 4

The tribes that owned the area was called the Etruscians, the Latins and the Seculy. Italy became Italy, as we know it, in the first century under Augustus. Rome was founded by Romulas in BC753, the inhabitants were called the Romans. The seat of the government was in Rome and from there the early world was controlled.

Answer 5

Rome was a city state originally and that's why its called the roman empire and the roman army

Answer 6

the romans did not just occupy the Italian peninsula, their empire was vast and they had over 900 years of thriving immigration to all the corners of the empire from the north of england to the Nile in Egypt. After the fall of Rome the people of different regions who were formerly roman developed their own language dialects from latan hence the "Romance Languages" IE French, Spanish, Italian etc. So you see Europe today is what is left of an empire broken...........and Italy is just one part of the puzzle

Answer 7

No such thing as Italy during Roman times. What is now italy was a collection of kingdoms and tribes in those days.

When Rome was founded, many people in what is now italy were indeed latin speaking peoples who were closely related to Romans. However you also had Etruscans, who had migrated from Asia Minor, and were related to the Hittites. In the north you also had various germanic tribes.

Italy did not come into being until 19th Century, under Garibaldi, who also made bad buiscuits!

Answer 8

In the simplest terms Italy as a nation state didn't exist. The Roman State was based on the City of Rome alone as in City State.

Answer 9

Romans were not Italians, the country of Italy did not exist in Roman times.

Answer 10

Italy was created on early XIX by wars where Giuseppe Garibaldi was the main actor and Victorio Emmanuelle II was its King.

During many, many centuries, Roman empire had its main city as a Rome, then you can understand the civilization's name.