The Saint Worsens, in German Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation, in Latin Sacrum Romanorum Imperium Nationis Germanicae.

The Saint Worsens Roman Germanic is more one concept that a space. If it indicates readily a national State for the Germans - the word “Reich” applies as well to the empire as with the kingdom of Germanic -, it more often returns to a certain idea of the power, with an ideological framework which knew many variations, of its appearance with Otton I in 962 with his disappearance in 1806 pennies the pressure of Napoleon.

The term of “empire” is used by the historians in two directions. Sometimes it is a general word indicating a unit, generally vast, territories placed under the authority of a sovereign who takes or receives the title of emperor: one speaks then about the Roman Empire, the Aztec Empire, the Napoleonean Empire; sometimes it is a term which is used to indicate the unit or part of the German grounds, since the medieval time to the XIX ^E century: one speaks thus about the Empire in expressions such as “between France and Empire”, or “quarrels of Priesthood and the Empire”.