When I look at recent maps of the holy roman empire it is directly over germany. AS we were taught in Jr High: It was neither : Holy.............nor Roman.nor an empire.......and when I was in germany there was a large museum of roman german aretifacts, collections, bits of architecture[I think} I had a photo of myself done behind some shined up roman armor with my head below the helmet and above the breast plate and such through the glass display case.