The Thurn und Taxis family eventually won the lucrative position of postmasters-general for the Holy Roman Empire.

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In the power vacuum that accompanied the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, a number of large and efficient city-states evolved, all having an unusually potent sense of a separate identity.

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There's no more Roman or Holy Roman Empire.

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The Roman Empire eventually crumbled, but some of its banking institutions lived on in the form of the papal bankers that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire, and with the Knights Of The Temple during the Crusades.

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