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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 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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  • 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 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 "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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  • 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 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 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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  • 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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  • 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 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 Mongol Empire (Mongolian: Их Монгол Улс, meaning "Great Mongol Nation;" (1206–1405) was the largest contiguous land ...
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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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  • title=British Empire| image_name=British Empire 1897.jpg| image_desc=The British Empire in ...
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  • title=Benin Empire| image_name=West African flag RMG L4479.jpeg| ... text=The Benin Empire or Edo Empire (1440-1897), also known as the ...
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  • at the outskirts of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, between the forces of the First Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantines during ...
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  • #REDIRECTBenin Empire ...
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  • to win independence for Greece from the Ottoman Empire. After a long and bloody struggle, and with the aid of the Great Powers, independence was finally ...
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  • family, served as a feudatory of the Vijayanagara Empire until the empire's decline in 1565. Later, under the rule of kings Narasaraja Wodeyar ...
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  • a Roman imperial dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96 C.E., encompassing the reigns of Vespasian (69–79 C.E.), and his two sons ...
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  • and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean. In 1503 he sailed round the Cape of Good Hope to India, where he obtained ...
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  • title=Mutapa Empire| image_name=Old Portuguese map of SA 529.JPG| ... text=The Kingdom of Mutapa (Portuguese: Monomotapa) or the Mutapa ...
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  • # The male monarch or ruler of an empire. #:In imperial China, it was ... # Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress ...
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  • from the West, and the Byzantine Empire itself. }} ...
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  • assuring European ascendancy vis-a-vis the Ottoman Empire. }} ...
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  • text=The Konbaung Dynasty, 1752-1885, also known as Third Burmese Empire and sometimes called the Alaungpaya Dynasty, was the last dynasty in ...
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  • of unequaled reach in biblical history, his empire's borders stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile. He founded an international court and ...
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  • title=Babylonian Empire| image_name=Hanging Gardens of Babylon.jpg| ... century B.C.E. It became the center of empire under Hammurabi (c. 1780 ...
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  • quickly to the industrial centers of the Russian Empire. The massacre on Bloody Sunday is considered to be the start of the active phase of the Revolution ...
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  • or state that is a member of a federation or an empire. In Rome, they were endorsed by the emperor and appointed by the Senate. In the modern United ...
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  • Empire) |- | style="padding: 0 5px; background: #fff;" |Ava ... Empire) |- | style="padding: 0 5px; background: #fff;" |Konbaung ...
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  • Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862. Although it is not Mexico's Independence Day (which ...
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