_Ragusa_, its commonwealth suppressed, 203.
_Ravenna_, Emperors at, 157.
Respublica, use of the word, 125.
Rex Græciæ, Eastern Emperor so called, 108, 109.
_Rhodes_, mention of in Homer, 19;
democracy of, 36;
dealings of Rome with, 218;
speech of Diôn Chrysostom at, 231, 232.
_Roger_, Count, his recovery of Sicily, 135.
_Roman_, use of the name, 43.
_Roman Church_, its boundaries, 181, 182.
_Roman Empire_, when did its decline begin? 75;
its extension, 76;
effect of the fifth century on, 79;
its traditions kept on in the East, 79, 80;
relations of its Eastern and Western divisions, 79-81;
its enlargement under Charles, 105; 109, 110;
its nature under Charles, 106, 107;
its final division in 800, 108, 109;
parted from the Roman nation, 110, 111;
translation of, 112-114;
its extent in the fifth century, 122;
its reconquest in the sixth century, 124-126;
advance of centralization in, 211;
change from republic to empire, 212-214.
_Roman kingdom_, in Gaul, 123.
_Roman nation_, created by the Edict of Antoninus, 42;
its growth, 70, 71; 73.
_Roman Senate_, acts as an international court, 57, 58.
_Romance languages_, their origin, 90.
_Romance nations_, their origin, 90-92;
their relation to the Roman Church, 182.
Romani, use of the name, 73, 111.
_Romania_, Latin Empire of, 145;
its style, 146.
_Rome_, her historic position, 3, 4;
her epithet of “Eternal,” 4;
her part in the Eastern Question, 5;
her relation to Greece, 15;
her early position, 26;
her first dealings with Greeks, 31;
her sudden entrance in the East, 35; 37;
slowness of her second advance, 39-41;
her first relations with Greece, 40, 41;
importance of her geographical position, 41;
her rule, the rule of a city, 42;
her historic calling, 43;
her relations to Gauls and Teutons, 43, 44;
her growth in Italy, 44, 45;
effects of her war with Pyrrhos, 45;
her rivalry and first war with Carthage, 46, 47;
strife of with Carthage for Spain, 48, 49;
her establishment beyond the Hadriatic, 49, 50;
how affected by the Hannibalian war, 50-53;
her position in the East after the first Macedonian war, 54-55;
her advance in the second century B.C., 55-59;
her time of trial, 60, 61;
her relations with Syria and Gaul, 61, 62;
her calling in the East, 62, 63;
her special rivalry with Persia, 63;
her first dealings with Germany, 64;
Christianity needful for its mission, 67;
change from commonwealth to Empire, 69;
its effect on the city and the province, 69, 70;
lessening of her local importance, 73, 74;
remains specially Pagan, 74;
falls away from the Empire, 80;
her relation to her allies, 82-85;
their slow incorporation, 84, 85;
extension of Greek influence by, 93;
her influence extended by the Teutonic settlements, ib.;
her influence beyond the Empire, 94;
taken by the Goths, 95;
never occupied by the Lombards, 98;
her position compared with that of Constantinople, 100-102;
absence of the Emperors from, 101;
her relations to Mahometanism, 133;
represented by the Popes, 164, 165; 181, 182;
the world without Rome, 173-176;
the world before and after Rome, 176;
effect of her reunion with Italy, 194, 195;
her position under the Popes, 194;
gradual establishment of her power, 209;
modern analogies to, ib.;
nature of her power over her allies, 214-217;
analogies with its internal constitution, 214;
her treatment of her allies, 217, 218;
comparison of her power in East and West, 239.
_Rome_, ROUM, Sultans of, 135; 144, 145.
_Rouman language_, its origin, 115.
_Roumans_, their relation to the Slavs, 103;
growth of, 119.
_Rudolf of Habsburg_, King, not Emperor, 139.
_Russian Empire_, 153, 154.
Ῥωμαῖοι, use of the name, 73; 86; 117; 141; 146.