👉 The term "interregnum" in Latin refers to a period of peace and tranquility. It was a time when Rome's Roman Senate held its sessions for the first time since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, which had been ravaged by civil wars and the sack of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) by the Byzantine Empire in 1453. The term "interregnum" was used to refer to the period between these two sessions