title of Emperor, which was a wise move that avoided a conflict with Constantinople (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople). He sent the imperial insignia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignia) to the Eastern Emperor Zeno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_(emperor)) and declared himself Patrician of the Western half, which by this time was no more than the Italian peninsula, Dalmatia and an exclave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclave)