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  • The Hoysala Empire (Kannada: ಹೊಯ್ಸಳ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ) (pronunciation: Hoysala_Empire.ogg|[hojsəɭə saːmraːdʒjə] ...
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  • The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the medieval Serbian kingdom in the fourteenth century. The Serbian ...
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  • The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately 1300 C.E. The largest West African empire to exist in present day Yorubaland ...
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  • American Empire is a term relating to the political, economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept of an American ...
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  • The Bornu Empire (1396-1893) was a medieval African state of Niger from 1389 to 1893. It was a continuation of the great Kanem-Bornu Kingdom ...
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  • The Ghaznavid Empire was a KhorāṣānianClifford Edmund Bosworth, 2006. [http://www.iranica.com/articles/v10f6/v10f608.html Ghaznavids] Encyclopaedia ...
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  • Francia or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire (Latin: imperium Francorum), Frankish Kingdom (Latin: regnum Francorum, "Kingdom ...
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  • and twentieth centuries, its global colonial empire was the second largest behind the British Empire. At its peak, between 1919 and 1939, the second ...
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  • The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and for a time was the foremost global power. It was a product of the European ...
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  • The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. ...
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  • The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom of Benin, was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There ...
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  • in North and South America. The Spanish Empire became the foremost global ... and even enlarged, its vast American empire until the early nineteenth ...
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  • The Vijayanagara Empire (Kannada: ವಿಜಯನಗರ ಸಾಮ್ರಾಜ್ಯ, Telugu: విజయనగర సామ్రాజ్యము ...
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  • The "Roman Empire" (Imperium Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule from approximately 44 B.C.E. until ...
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  • century B.C.E. It became the center of empire under Hammurabi (c. 1780 ... In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the neo-Babylonian empire ruler ...
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  • The Kingdom of Mutapa (Shona: Wene we Mutapa; Portuguese: Monomotapa) or the Mutapa Empire was a medieval kingdom (c. 1450-1629) which stretched ...
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  • The only remaining vestige of this empire, and its only substantial ... interests is an interesting question. Its empire was a trading enterprise ...
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  • The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger ...
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  • thumb|250px|Some of the cities in [[Mali Empire|Mali]] which were under the ... The Bamana Empire (also Bambara Empire or Ségou Empire) was a large ...
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  • The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic ...
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  • The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled North-central and Eastern India as well as parts of the northwest (now ...
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  • The Mali Empire or Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa was a medieval West African state of the Mandinka from c. 1235 to c. 1600. The empire was ...
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  • The Durrani Empire (also referred to as the Afghan Empire) was a large state that included modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, northeastern Iran, and ...
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  • The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern European colonial empires. It spanned almost six centuries, from the capture ...
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  • The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty, was a geographically extensive and powerful political and military empire ...
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  • The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled by the Netherlands from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The ...
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  • The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital ...
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  • The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea existed from approximately 1270 (beginning of Solomonid Dynasty ...
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  • The Mongol Empire (Mongolian: Их Монгол Улс, meaning "Great Mongol Nation;" (1206–1405) was the largest contiguous land ...
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  • The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that grew up around the city of Akkad north of Sumer, and reached its greatest ...
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  • The Italian colonial empire was created after Italy joined other European powers in establishing colonies overseas during the "scramble ...
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  • Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the third Iranian dynasty and the second Empire. The dynasty was founded by Ardashir ...
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  • The Mughal Empire, (Persian language: مغل بادشاۿ) was an empire that at its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of Afghanistan, ...
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  • The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom of Aksum or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa ...
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  • ruled over a peaceful and prosperous empire. Their demise was followed ... From 1609-1610, war broke out between Kurdish tribes and Safavid Empire ...
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  • The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects in human history, ruling vast territories in North Africa, the Balkans, and ...
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  • The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...
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  • The Western Chalukya Empire (Kannada:ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಚಾಲುಕ್ಯ ... the situation. The Western Chalukya empire convincingly eclipsed the ...
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  • The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York ...
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  • That Sweden possessed a colonial empire is a less well known fact ... with Norway and governed a land-based empire in the Baltic including Finland ...
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  • to 1218 C.E. and refers to the Khitan empire in Central Asia. Yelü Dashi ... The Mongol Empire destroyed the Khitan empire in 1218. The Khitan people ...
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  • The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a pre-colonial West African trading state centered on the middle reaches of the Niger ...
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  • were a peace treaty with the Mitanni Empire, and suppressing rebellion ... into the Palestine-Syria region of his empire where local revolt was threatened ...
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  • thumb|250px|Some of the cities in [[Mali Empire|Mali]] which were under the ... The Bamana Empire (also Bambara Empire or Ségou Empire) was a large ...
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  • Brandenburg within the Holy Roman Empire and Ducal Prussia outside ... had never belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and therefore there was no ...
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  • The Oyo Empire was a large West African empire founded in approximately 1300 C.E. The largest West African empire to exist in present day Yorubaland ...
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  • Theodora (c. 500 – June 28, 548) was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. Along with her husband, she is a ...
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  • The Battle of Talikota (or Tellikota) (January 26, 1565) constituted a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan ...
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  • the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire after the signing of the ... account of Triple Alliance ambitions for empire in and beyond the European space. ...
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  • Ögedei Khan, Ögedei; also Ogotai or Oktay (c. 1186 – 1241), was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire ...
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  • The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the Kingdom of Benin, was a large pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria. There ...
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  • both Egypt and much of the Eastern Roman Empire. Zenobia became queen of the Palmyrene Empire as the second wife of King ...
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  • The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the medieval Serbian kingdom in the fourteenth century. The Serbian ...
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  • he reigned from 1350 to 1403. The empire he founded dominated Central ... The culture of the Aztecs was warlike and expanding the empire was ...
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  • The Preliminary Treaty of San Stefano was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78 ...
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  • ===Relations with the Holy Roman Empire=== This was a period when the ... ===Relations with the Byzantine Empire and the Eastern Church=== ...
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  • The Ghana Empire or Wagadou Empire (existed c. 750-1076) was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania, Western Mali, and Eastern Senegal. ...
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  • some 50 million people and the largest empire that the world had known ... depended on Persians to administer the empire, building on the work of ...
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  • The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that grew up around the city of Akkad north of Sumer, and reached its greatest ...
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  • and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.), ending ... was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version ...
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  • The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York ...
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  • when, encountering the powerful Magadha empire armies, his army mutinied ... consequently founded the Maurya empire in northern India. Seleucus ...
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  • The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an African trading empire ruled by the Saf dynasty from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. It encompassed, at ...
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  • The Italian colonial empire was created after Italy joined other European powers in establishing colonies overseas during the "scramble ...
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  • grandfather in 238. During his reign, the empire's defenses were strengthened ... forms part of the declining days of the empire, although in terms of the ...
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  • Polish-Ottoman War (1672–1676) or Second Polish-Ottoman War was a war between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. It ...
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  • was the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918–1922. The brother of Mehmed V who died four months before the end of World ...
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  • C.E. they invaded what was then the Roman Empire province of Dacia, together ... between rival powers, such as the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian ...
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  • in North East India, and the Maratha Empire, or confederacy, in the south ... Kingley, the African explorer, described empire as the ‘blackman’s burden’ ...
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  • statesman within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Taaffe was an excellent ... and unrest within the multi-cultural empire, with its several languages ...
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  • Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) that had been signed by the Istanbul-based Ottoman ...
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  • under Babur, the first ruler of the Moghul Empire in India. Nanak reprimands ... had they succeeded in protecting their empire, Babur would not have established ...
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  • the office of Emperor of the Roman Empire, which became known as the ... power in what had been the Western Roman Empire. Once the empire had collapsed ...
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  • The Durrani Empire (also referred to as the Afghan Empire) was a large state that included modern Afghanistan, Pakistan, northeastern Iran, and ...
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  • The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ... The immediate roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the Qing Empire, ...
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  • (1425–1448), describing how the empire could be reorganized according ... Western Europe since the time of the Roman Empire, and especially since the ...
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  • of the capital of the Vijayanagar empire during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries C.E. Notes by foreign travelers such as Abdur Razzak, the ...
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  • colony, later part of the Carthaginian empire, the kingdom of Massinissa ... city, and eventually one of the Roman Empire's most important cities ...
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  • He became the first king of the Babylonian Empire, extending Babylon's ... Although his empire controlled all of Mesopotamia at the time of his ...
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  • extended beyond Persia into the Roman Empire in the west, and India in ... day Iraq), which was a part of the Persian Empire. He was an exceptionally ...
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  • 5-6,1566) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Caliph of Islam from 1520 ... of the ideal or model ruler. Although the empire continued to expand for a ...
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  • The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire ...
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  • The Battle of Constantinople was fought in June 922 at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces ...
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  • and Pompey that had enveloped the Roman Empire only a century prior. In ... Lucan was born in present-day Spain, then a territory of the Roman ...
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  • In 330 B.C.E., the Achaemenid Empire established the first Persian ... No written document remains from the era before the Persian Empire ...
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  • *Curtis, J., and N. Tallis. 2005. Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia. University of California Press. ISBN 0520247310 *Trigger, Bruce ...
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  • ), was one of the four khanates within the Mongol Empire. It was centered ... khan and ultimate sovereign of the entire empire. Hulegu's descendants ...
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  • Chandragupta II (referred to as Vikramaditya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) stands as one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire. His ...
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