This is a navigational list of empires.
Empires
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Empire | Start year | End year | Duration (years) |
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Achaemenid Empire | 550 BC | 330 BC | 220 |
Afsharid Iran | 1736 | 1796 | 60 |
Akkadian Empire | 2334 BC | 2154 BC | 180 |
Akwamu | 1629 | 1867 | 238 |
Angevin Empire | 1154 | 1242 | 88 |
Aq Qoyunlu | 1378 | 1503 | 125 |
Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity) | 331 BC | 428 | 618 |
Asante Empire | 1670 | 1957 | 226 |
Assyrian Empire | 2025 BC | 609 BC | 1416 |
Aulikara Empire | 528 | 550 | 22 |
Austria-Hungary | 1867 | 1918 | 51 |
Austrian Empire | 1804 | 1867 | 63 |
Avar Khaganate | 567 | 822 | 255 |
Ayutthaya Kingdom | 1351 | 1767 | 416 |
Aztec Empire | 1325 | 1521 | 196 |
Old Babylonian Empire | 1894 BC[1][2] | 1595 BC | 299 |
Neo-Babylonian Empire | 626 BC | 539 BC | 87 |
Bamana Empire | 1712 | 1861 | 149 |
Belgian colonial empire | 1908 | 1962 | 55 |
Kingdom of Benin | 1180 | 1897 | 717 |
Empire of Brazil | 1822 | 1889 | 67 |
Britannic Empire | 286 | 296 | 10 |
British Empire | 1583 | 1997 | 414 |
British Raj | 1858 | 1947 | 89 |
Bruneian Sultanate (1368–1888) | 1368 | 1888 | 520 |
Old Great Bulgaria | 632 | 668 | 36 |
First Bulgarian Empire | 681 | 1018 | 337 |
Second Bulgarian Empire | 1185 | 1396 | 211 |
Byzantine Empire | 395 | 1453 | 1058 |
Carthaginian Empire | 814 BC | 146 BC | 668 |
Central African Empire | 1976 | 1979 | 3 |
Chenla | 550 | 802 | 252 |
Chimor | 900 | 1470 | 570 |
Chola Empire | 848 | 1279 | 431 |
Classical Athens | 508 BC | 322 BC | 180 |
Danish colonial empire | 1536 | 1953 | 417 |
Durrani Empire | 1747 | 1842 | 95 |
Dutch colonial empire | 1595 | 1975 | 380 |
Empire of Charles V | 1519 | 1556 | 37 |
New Kingdom of Egypt | 1550 BC | 1077 BC | 473 |
Elamite Empire | 1210 BC | 1100 BC | 110 |
Ethiopian Empire | 1270 | 1974 | 704 |
First French Empire | 1804 | 1815 | 11 |
Second French Empire | 1852 | 1870 | 18 |
French colonial empire | 1534 | 1980/present | 446/489 |
Francia | 481 | 843 | 362 |
Funan | 50 | 550 | 500 |
Gallic Empire | 260 | 274 | 14 |
Gaza Empire | 1824 | 1895 | 71 |
Genoese Republic | 1005 | 1797 | 792 |
German colonial empire | 1884 | 1920 | 36 |
German Empire | 1871 | 1919 | 48 |
German Empire (1848–1849) | 1848 | 1849 | 1 |
Ghana Empire | 830 | 1235 | 405 |
Ghaznavid Empire | 977 | 1186 | 209 |
Goguryeo | 37 BC | 668 | 705 |
Goryeo | 918 | 1392 | 474 |
Golden Horde | 1240 | 1502 | 262 |
Grand Duchy of Lithuania | 1236 | 1795 | 559 |
Empire of Great Fulo | 1512 | 1776 | 264 |
Gupta Empire | 320 | 550 | 230 |
Habsburg monarchy | 1282 | 1918 | 636 |
First Empire of Haiti | 1804 | 1806 | 2 |
Second Empire of Haiti | 1849 | 1859 | 10 |
Hephthalite Empire | 440 | 560 | 120 |
Hittite Empire | 1600 BC | 1178 BC | 422 |
Holy Roman Empire | 962 | 1806 | 844 |
Hospitaller colonial empire | 1651 | 1665 | 14 |
Hoysala Kingdom | 1026 | 1343 | 317 |
Hunnic Empire | 370 | 469 | 99 |
Kingdom of Hungary | 1000 | 1918 | 918 |
Iberian Union | 1580 | 1640 | 60 |
Inca Empire | 1438 | 1572 | 134 |
Italian Empire | 1882 | 1960 | 78 |
Empire of Japan | 1868 | 1947 | 79 |
Jolof Empire | 1350 | 1549 | 199 |
Kaabu | 1537 | 1867 | 330 |
Kanem–Bornu Empire | c. 700 | 1893 | 1193 |
Khmer Empire | 802 | 1431 | 629 |
Khwarazmian Empire | 1077 | 1231 | 154 |
Kingdom of Georgia | 1008 | 1490 | 482 |
Kong Empire | 1710 | 1898 | 188 |
Korean Empire | 1897 | 1910 | 13 |
Kushan Empire | 30 | 345 | 315 |
Kingdom of Kush | 1077 BC | 350 | 1427 |
Latin Empire | 1204 | 1261 | 57 |
Macedonia | 808 BC | 148 BC | 660 |
Magadhan Empire | 544 BC | 550 | 1093 |
Majapahit | 1293 | 1527 | 234 |
Mali Empire | 1235 | 1670 | 435 |
Maratha Confederacy | 1674 | 1818 | 144 |
Massina Empire | 1820 | 1862 | 42 |
Maurya Empire | 321 BC | 185 BC | 136 |
Median kingdom | 678 BC | 550 BC | 128 |
First Mexican Empire | 1821 | 1823 | 2 |
Second Mexican Empire | 1864 | 1867 | 3 |
Mongol Empire | 1206 | 1368 | 162 |
Great Moravia | 833 | 907 | 74 |
Mughal Empire | 1526 | 1857 | 331 |
Nanda Empire | 345 BC | 321 BC | 24 |
Nazi Germany | 1933 | 1945 | 12 |
Kingdom of Nepal | 1768 | 2008 | 240 |
Neo-Sumerian Empire | 2112 BC | 2004 BC | 108 |
North Sea Empire | 1013 | 1042 | 29 |
Empire of Nicaea | 1204 | 1261 | 57 |
Odrysian kingdom | 480 BC | 30 BC | 450 |
Omani Empire | 1696 | 1856 | 158 |
Ostrogothic Kingdom | 493 | 553 | 60 |
Ottoman Empire | 1299 | 1922 | 623 |
Oyo Empire | 1300 | 1896 | 596 |
Pagan kingdom | 849 | 1287 | 438 |
Pala Empire | 750 | 1161 | 411 |
Palmyrene Empire | 270 | 273 | 3 |
Parthian Empire | 247 BC | 224 | 471 |
Kingdom of Pontus | 281 BC | 62 | 342 |
Portuguese Empire | 1415 | 1999 | 584 |
Ptolemaic Kingdom | 305 BC | 30 BC | 275 |
Purépecha Empire | 1300 | 1530[3] | 230 |
Qara Khitai | 1124 | 1218 | 94 |
Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932) | 1782 | 1932 | 150 |
Roman Empire | 27 BC | 395 | 422 |
Rozvi Empire | 1660 | 1866 | 206 |
Russian Empire | 1721 | 1917 | 196 |
Safavid Iran | 1501 | 1736 | 235 |
Samo's Empire | 631 | 658 | 27 |
Sasanian Empire | 224 | 651 | 427 |
Samanid Empire | 819 | 999 | 180 |
Seleucid Empire | 312 BC | 63 BC | 249 |
Seljuk Empire | 1037 | 1194 | 157 |
Serbian Empire | 1346 | 1371 | 25 |
Shu Han | 221 | 263 | 42 |
Sikh Empire | 1799 | 1849 | 50 |
Singhasari | 1222 | 1292 | 70 |
Songhai Empire | 1464 | 1591 | 127 |
Spanish Empire | 1492 | 1976 | 496 |
Shunga Empire | 185 BC | 73 BC | 112 |
Sur Empire | 1540 | 1556 | 16 |
Swedish Empire | 1523 | 1809 | 286 |
Empire of Thessalonica | 1224 | 1242 | 18 |
Tibetan Empire | 755 | 842 | 87 |
Timurid Empire | 1370 | 1507 | 137 |
Empire of Trebizond | 1204 | 1461 | 257 |
Toltec Empire | 496 | 1122 | 626 |
Tuʻi Tonga Empire | 950 | 1865 | 915 |
Tukulor Empire | 1852 | 1893 | 41 |
First Turkic Khaganate | 551 | 744 | 193 |
Empire of Vietnam | March 1945 | August 1945 | 0 (5 Months) |
Vijayanagara Empire | 1336 | 1646 | 310 |
Wari Empire (debated) | 600 | 1100 | 500 |
Wassoulou Empire | 1878 | 1898 | 20 |
Western Chalukya Empire | 975 | 1184 | 209 |
Western Roman Empire | 395 | 476 | 81 |
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Aliraqi - Babylonian Empire". Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Babylonian Empire - Livius".
- ^ Relación de Michoacán, complete text (in Spanish)
External links
edit- Pella, John & Erik Ringmar, History of International Relations Open Textbook Project, Cambridge: Open Book, forthcoming.