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   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   On 2012-11-11, Stan Brown  wrote:   
      
   > In the Third Age I would not count   
   > Gondor, which was more like the Holy Roman Empire than a nation-   
   > state;   
      
   Why is that?  I always had thought that Gondor more closely   
   resembled Byzantinum - centralized control, a capital city,   
   slow waning of power etc.   
      
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