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(archaic) The city of Rome in Italy and the city of Constantinople (the "New Rome") taken together; the empire(s) ruled by these cities. quotations
Yet haue the Sarasins attempted both Romes; they haue besieged Constantinople, and haue wasted... the Sea coasts of Italy.
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, section 13
The weakening of the two Romes created the space for the emergence of both the Holy Roman Empire of the Franks and the Islamic Empire.
1999, G. Vallée, Shaping of Christianity, X 203