The Unending Legacy: Who Claims to Succeed Rome? 

Politically and culturally speaking, Italy and Greece can be considered successors and bearers of the legacy of Rome. Both countries influenced and shaped the culture of their respective ancient and modern states in their respective fields from the time of antiquity to the time of the Midde-Ages and the modern age (e.g. language, cuisine, customs, traditions, or pagan religion [before both were converted to Christianity]). Additionally, the linguistic approach. Whereas in the West, Latin (spoken by the Romans of the Western Roman Empire) became the basis of the modern Italian language, in the East, Koine (spoken by the Hellenistic people of antiquity and the Romans of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire) became the basis of the modern Greek language.

Do you consider that the Roman Catholic Church is also a successor of the Western Roman Empire? They effectively took over some of the Empire roles at times, like building/maintaining temples, public infrastructure (aqueducts/fountains and maybe others) and... crowning emperors all over Europe!

dunno monaco? liechteinstein? san marino? andorra? vatican?

Holy Roman Empire the only one that has Rome in the name but the one with less legitimacy in all the list 😹😹😹

The face of all claimants and the world when the truth gets revealed it’s actually Ethiopia. Hey man screenshot this so when it happens you will know it’s true.

If you're aiming to get into making a YT history channel, it would be HIGHLY advisable to not say "Name number" because it makes you sound like you've not ever had a conversation or watched a documentary before. Leo The Third, not Leo Three. Otto The First, not Otto One. I dunno if this is a language thing (if it is, you cover it well), lack of caring, or trying to be cool... but people *WILL* make very understandable deductions about your education based on how you present your facts. If someone was talking about Alexander Dumas and called him Alexander Dumbass because of the spelling... I think most people would presume they have no clue what they're talking about. That holds true with naming conventions such as Leo The Third.

modern italians claiming roman legacy is insane. greece is the best claimant

It's Bulgaria.

In my humble view, romania is the sole inheritor of the eastern Roman empire , Beeing direct descendants of the romans and what not, as for the western part, there should be democratic vote between all the romance speaking countries in western europe and Latin america as to who fulfils the day to day tasks of manging the plebes and patricians needs, ave.