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An empire is a realm controlled by a monarch or other official and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries. The center of the empire...

Georgia Empire, Kentucky Empire, Louisiana Empire, Michigan Empire, Minnesota Empire, Missouri Empire, Nevada Empire, Ormsby County, Nevada Empire, Ohio...

The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire, was a state that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from...

The Roman Empire was a state that dominated the Mediterranean and much of Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa during the classical period. The Roman...

The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity...

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises...

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its...

symbols. The Sasanian Empire (/səˈsɑːniən/), officially Eranshahr (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭩𐭥𐭠𐭭𐭱𐭲𐭥𐭩, romanized: Ērānšahr, lit. 'Empire of the Iranians')...

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west...

The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich, or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich...

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity comprising and controlling much of Central Europe...

Achaemenid Empire (/ə.ˈkiː.mə.nɪd/, ə-KEE-mə-nid; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom') was an ancient Iranian empire founded by...

The Russian Empire was the final period of the Russian monarchy, spanning most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation...

Several empires in human history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement. Possible ways of measuring...

The Tartarian Empire or Great Tartaria is a group of pseudohistorical conspiracy theories, including ideas of a "hidden past" and "mud floods", which originated...

The Viltrumite Empire is a fictional galactic empire and the primary antagonistic force in the Invincible comic series and its animated adaptation, created...

Boardwalk Empire is an American period crime drama television series created by Terence Winter for the premium cable channel HBO. The series is set chiefly...

The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building...

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu pronounced [taˈwantiŋ ˈsuju], lit. 'land of four parts'), was the...

The Vijayanagara Empire, also known as the Karnata Empire, was a late medieval Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India. It was established in 1336...

The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the period of Japanese history spanning 79 years, starting with the Meiji...

The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a multinational European great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out...

An evil empire is a speculative fiction trope. Evil Empire may also refer to: Evil Empire speech, given by U.S. President Ronald Reagan referring to the...

The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Carolingian...

Qing, also known as the Qing Empire or Qing China, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia which existed from...

The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous empire in history. Originating in present-day Mongolia in East Asia, the medieval empire at its height stretched...

Empire Records is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Allan Moyle, written by Carol Heikkinen, and starring an ensemble cast including...

The Seleucid Empire (/sɪˈljuːsɪd/ sih-LEW-sid) was a Greek state in West Asia during the Hellenistic period. It was founded in 312 BC by the Macedonian...

The Inland Empire (commonly abbreviated as the IE) is a metropolitan area and region inland of and adjacent to coastal Southern California in the Greater...

The Gupta Empire was an Indian empire during the classical period of the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century to mid 6th century...

The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, was a country that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea...

The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner...

called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. As India, it was a founding member of the League...

Second Empire may refer to: Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783 Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)...

The Songhai Empire was a state located in the western part of the Sahel during the 15th and 16th centuries. At its peak, it was one of the largest African...

The Sikh Empire was a regional power based in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. It existed from 1799, when Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore...

Bulgarian Empire may refer to: First Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian state that existed from 681 to 1018 Second Bulgarian Empire, medieval Bulgarian...

Greek empire most commonly refers to one of the following two empires: Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great Byzantine Empire It may also refer to one...

The Kushan Empire (c. 30–c. 375 CE) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. It spread to encompass...

The Khmer Empire was an empire in mainland Southeast Asia, centred on hydraulic cities in what is now northern Cambodia. Known as Kambuja (Old Khmer: កម្វុជ;...

as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and officially as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional dual empire in Central Europe between...

A hydraulic empire, also known as a hydraulic despotism, hydraulic society, hydraulic civilization, or water monopoly empire, is a social or government...

The Mali Empire was an empire in West Africa from c. 1235 to 1610. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita (c. 1214 – c. 1255) and became renowned for...

The Timurid Empire was a late medieval Turco-Mongol, culturally Persianate, Muslim empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising...

Seljuk Empire (/ˈsɛldʒuːk/ SEL-jook in BrE, /sɛlˈdʒuk/ sel-JOOK in AmE), or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, Turko-Persian empire established...

The Khwarazmian Empire (English: /kwəˈræzmiən/), or simply Khwarazm, was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin, ruled by...

to its sovereignty, with Portugal seizing some territory and the Ottoman Empire encroaching from the east. The Marinid and Saadi dynasties otherwise resisted...

Empire Distribution, Records and Publishing Inc. (stylized as EMPIRE) is an independent American record label, distribution and publishing company founded...

The Korean Empire (Korean: 대한국; Hanja: 大韓國; RR: Daehanguk; MR: Taehan'guk; lit. 'Great Korean State'), officially the Empire of Korea or Imperial Korea...

The Samanid Empire (Persian: سامانیان, romanized: Sāmāniyān) was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, ruled by a dynasty of Iranian dehqan origin, from 819...

The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople or the Constantinopolitan Empire, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the...

American Empire may refer to: American Empire (film), a 1942 Western film American Empire (series), a series of novels by Harry Turtledove American Empire Project...

The Swedish Empire, referred to in Sweden as the Great Power Era (Swedish: stormaktstiden), was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th...

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976....

Arab empire or Arabian empire may refer to: Rashidun Caliphate Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate Fatimid Caliphate Arabs Saracen Pan-Arabism Arab world...

The Akkadian Empire (/əˈkeɪdiən/) or the Kingdom of Akkad/Agade was an ancient kingdom established around 2334 BCE, and the first empire in world history...

The Durrani Empire, colloquially known as the Kingdom of Afghanistan, the Afghan Empire, or the Sadozai Kingdom, was an Afghan empire founded in 1747...

The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia with its power base in Magadha. Founded by Chandragupta Maurya...

The Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) or historiographically as the...

The Empire State is a nickname for the U.S. state of New York, adopted in the 1800s. It has been incorporated into the names of several state buildings...

The Nanda Empire was a vast empire that governed in Magadha and Gangetic plains with an enormous geographical reach in 4th-century BCE northeastern India...

A colonial empire is a state engaging in colonization, and possibly establishing or maintaining colonies, infused with some form of coloniality and colonialism...

The Angevin Empire (/ˈændʒɪvɪn/; French: Empire Plantagenêt) was the collection of territories held by the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th...

The French Empire (French: Empire français; Latin: Imperium Francicum), known retroactively as the First French Empire, and colloquially as Napoleonic...

being considered for merging. › The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman), also known as the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to...

Empire of the Sun may refer to: Empire of the Sun (novel) by J. G. Ballard published in 1984 Empire of the Sun (film), a film adaptation of the novel...

Course of Empire may refer to: The Course of Empire (paintings), a series of paintings created by Thomas Cole from 1833 to 1836 The Course of Empire, an art...

Italian colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), sometimes known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano), was a colonial empire that existed...

The Chola Empire (Tamil: [t͡ʃoːɻɐɾ, soːɻɐɾ]), which is often referred to as the Imperial Cholas, was a medieval thalassocratic empire based in southern...

Empire of Haiti may refer to: First Empire of Haiti, the regime under Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jacques I) from 1804 to 1806 Second Empire of Haiti, the...

Indian Empire or the Kingdom of India may refer to: Maurya Empire (322 BCE – 185 BCE) Gupta Empire (c. 240–c. 550) Chola Empire (848–1279) Delhi Sultanate...

The Portuguese Empire was the first, the longest and last European colonial empire, existing between 1415 and 1999. It ushered the European Age of Discovery...

The Galactic Empire, also known simply as the Empire, is a fictional autocracy featured in the Star Wars franchise. Introduced in the 1977 film Star Wars...

The Omani Empire (Arabic: الْإِمْبَرَاطُورِيَّة الْعُمَانِيَّة) was a maritime empire, vying with Portugal and Britain for trade and influence in the...

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group. The first issue was published in May 1989. David Hepworth of Emap, the publisher...

Gallic Empire or Gallic Roman Empire are names used in modern historiography for a breakaway Western European part of the Roman Empire that functioned...

Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process...

I and Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire became a global power. From 1789 onwards, the empire saw major changes, reforms, centralization, and...

The Parthian Empire (/ˈpɑːrθiən/), also known as the Arsacid Empire (/ˈɑːrsəsɪd/), was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient...

Age of Empires is a series of historical real-time strategy video games, originally developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios....

Thracians, Persians, Celts, and Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, tribal...

The Empire of Trebizond or the Trapezuntine Empire was one of the three Byzantine rump states of the Byzantine Empire that existed during the 13th through...

The Ghana Empire (Arabic: غانا), also known as simply Ghana, Ghanata, or Wagadu, was an ancient western-Sahelian empire based in the modern-day southeast...

The Gaza Empire, also called the Gaza Kingdom (1824–1897) was an African empire established by Soshangane and was located in southeastern Africa in the...

end of the first millennium, first as a frontier march of the Holy Roman Empire, it then developed into a Duchy in 1156, and was made an Archduchy in 1453...

Empire of the Vampire is a 2021 illustrated horror-fantasy novel by Australian novelist Jay Kristoff. Twenty-seven years after Daysdeath, a mysterious...

number of unowned plots in Switzerland and founding the symbolic "Lauwiner Empire". Jonas Lauwiner was born to a Valaisan father from the municipality of...

The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. For most of its existence, it comprised...

The Empire of Nicaea (Greek: Βασιλεία Ῥωμαίων), also known as the Nicene Empire, was the largest of the three Greek rump states founded by the aristocracy...

The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan between March 11 and August 25, 1945. It was a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity...

French Empire (French: Empire Français) may refer to: First French Empire, ruled by Napoleon I from 1804 to 1814 and in 1815 and by Napoleon II in 1815...

The Tibetan Empire (Tibetan: བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po, lit. 'Great Tibet') was centered on the Tibetan Plateau and formed as a result of expansions...

Empire City may refer to: Empire City (California), a historic landmark in Empire, California Empire City, Kansas, an unincorporated community Empire...

Empire of Dust is a 2011 Belgian documentary film directed by Bram Van Paesschen. The film documents the struggle of a Chinese railroad logistics worker...

distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a sequel to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024), and will serve as the sixth Godzilla film to be completely produced...

The Shunga Empire (IAST: Śuṅga) was a ruling entity centred around Magadha and controlled most of the northern Indian subcontinent from around 187 to 75...

Empire! is a space combat and trading video game designed by Andrew Glaister and published by Firebird Software in 1986 for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum...

Greek-speaking Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire. During most of its existence, the Byzantine Empire was the most powerful economic...

majority of which are former territories of its predecessor, the British Empire. They are connected through their use of the English language and their...

The Serbian Empire (Serbian: Српско царство / Srpsko carstvo, pronounced [sr̩̂pskoː tsâːrstʋo]) was a medieval Serbian state that emerged from the Kingdom...

Kʼicheʼ kingdom in the Guatemalan Highlands. In the 16th century, the Spanish Empire colonized the Mesoamerican region, and a lengthy series of campaigns saw...

The Gajapati Empire was a medieval powerful Hindu monarchy in the Indian subcontinent, originally from the region of Odisha that reigned from c.1434 to...

The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa. It was located in present-day western Nigeria (including the South West zone and the western half of...

Empire, the Western Roman Empire, the Carolingian Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Republic of Venice, the Habsburg Empire,...

Empire Theatre or Empire Theater may refer to: Empire Theatre, Adelaide, former theatre and cinema in Grote Street, Adelaide, 1909–1948 Empire Theatre...

Age of Empires. Rick Goodman, who designed Empire Earth and Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, was one of the lead designers of Age of Empires. The games...

('restoration of the Empire'). This ambition was expressed by the partial recovery of the territories of the defunct Western Roman Empire. His general, Belisarius...

Chimp Empire is a 2023 Netflix television series about chimpanzees, narrated by Mahershala Ali. Set in Uganda's Kibale National Park, it follows the lives...

Sharifian Empire may refer to: Saadi Sultanate, a state based in present-day Morocco from 1510 to 1659 Alawi Sultanate, which ruled Morocco from 1666 to...

The Batè Empire (N’ko: ߓߊߕߍ߫ Bátɛ) was a pre-colonial state centred on Kankan in what is today Guinea. Founded by Mandinka and Soninke people as an Islamic...

Empire of Lust (Korean: 순수의 시대; RR: Sunsuui sidae; lit. 'The Age of Innocence') is a 2015 South Korean period action film starring Shin Ha-kyun, Jang Hyuk...

The Empire Builder is a daily long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and either Seattle or Portland via two sections west of...

causes of World War I included the rise of the German Empire and decline of the Ottoman Empire, which disturbed the long-standing balance of power in...

The term "Soviet empire" collectively refers to the world's territories that the Soviet Union dominated politically, economically, and militarily. This...

Secret Empire may refer to: Secret Empire (organization), an evil organization in Marvel Comics Secret Empire (1974 comic), comic book storyline Secret...

21st century BC to the 14th century BC and eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC. Assyrian history spans from...

rising House of Habsburg. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to northern Italy with rule over the Austrian hereditary...

Nomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, were the empires erected by the bow-wielding, horse-riding, nomadic...

Dark Empire is a Star Wars comic book metaseries produced by Dark Horse Comics. It consists of a six-issue limited series written by Tom Veitch and drawn...

The Lunda Empire or Lunda Commonwealth was a confederation or commonwealth of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, north-eastern Angola...

Empire silhouette, Empire line, Empire waist or just Empire is a style in clothing in which the dress has a fitted bodice ending just below the bust,...

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a 2024 American supernatural comedy film directed by Gil Kenan, and written by Kenan and Jason Reitman. It is the sequel...

The Chinese Empire (traditional Chinese: 中華帝國; simplified Chinese: 中华帝国; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Dìguó), or the Empire of China, refers to the realm ruled by...

conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. He was...

Look up Mexican Empire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mexican Empire may refer to: First Mexican Empire, the dominion under Agustín de Iturbide (Agustín...

Inland Empire is a 2006 film written, directed, shot, edited, and scored by David Lynch, who produced it alongside Mary Sweeney. The film stars Laura Dern...

The Ghaznavid Empire (Persian: غزنویان, romanized: Ġaznaviyān) was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim state of Turkic mamluk origin. Flourishing from...

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI is a book by Karen Hao released on May 20, 2025. It focuses on the history of OpenAI and its...

The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state from the Roman Empire resulting from the Crisis of the Third Century. Named after its capital city...

The Pāla Empire was an empire ruled by the Pala (lit. 'protector' in Prakrit and Sanskrit) dynasty, an early medieval Indian dynasty. The empire was founded...

First Empire may refer to: First British Empire, sometimes used to describe the British Empire between 1583 and 1783 First Bulgarian Empire (680–1018)...

The Purépecha Empire, also known as the Kingdom of Tzintzuntzan (Purépecha: Ts'intsúntsani Iréchikwa, [tsʰin'd͡zund͡zani̥ i'ɾet͡ʃikʷa]), was a polity in...

The Mexican Empire (Spanish: Imperio Mexicano, pronounced [imˈpeɾjo mexiˈkano] ) was a constitutional monarchy and the first independent government of...

The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon...

A republican empire is a form of government in which a country governed as a republic transitions into an empire. Examples of this process include the...

dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium. During this period, Rome's control expanded...

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a 2021 book by Patrick Radden Keefe. The book examines the history of the Sackler family,...

the Empire is a political fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. Published in 1987, it is the first book in the Empire Trilogy...

notably Empire Soho, Empire Tower, Empire Hotel and Empire Shopping Gallery. Empire Shopping Gallery and Empire Hotel were opened in 2010. Empire Shopping...

Dream Empire is a 2016 American documentary film directed by David Borenstein. Its plot revolves around the director's experience as a foreign performer...

Third Empire may refer to: Third Bulgarian Empire, occasionally used to describe the Kingdom of Bulgaria (1908–1946) Third German Empire or Third Reich...

Empire Falls is a 2001 novel written by Richard Russo. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002, and follows the story of Miles Roby in a fictional...

The Empire style (French: style Empire [stil ɑ̃piʁ]) is an early–19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the...

played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in the Roman Empire, the Edict of Milan decriminalising Christian practice and ceasing Christian...

The Empire of Light (French: L'Empire des lumières) is the title of a succession of paintings by René Magritte. They depict the paradoxical image of a...

The French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial français) consisted of the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under...

The Empire of Brazil (Portuguese: Império do Brasil) was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay...

The Elegant Empire (Korean: 우아한 제국) is a South Korean television series starring by Han Ji-wan, Lee Si-kang, Kang Yul, Son Seong-yoon, Kim Jin-woo and...

The empire, domain or lordship of King Garabito was a vast territory controlled by Huetar King Garabito and that extended through most of the Central Valley...

boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning...

over the largest empire the world had yet seen. In the 4th century BC, the Achaemenid Empire was conquered by the Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great...

of the Empire is a fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. Published in 1990, it is the second book in the Empire Trilogy...

The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to ancient...

retitled Episode IV: A New Hope, was followed by the sequels Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), forming the...

The Mthethwa Paramountcy, sometimes referred to as the Mtetwa or Mthethwa Empire, was a Southern African state that arose in the 18th century south of Delagoa...

The Sakalava empire was a polity along the western coast of Madagascar, consisting of two large Sakalava kingdoms (Menabe and Iboina) and various others...

Fallen Empire or Fallen Empires may refer to: Fallen Empire (film), 2012 film by Alejo Mo-Sun Fallen Empires (Magic: The Gathering), a Magic: The Gathering...

Black Empire may refer to: Black Empire (novel), a 1938 speculative fiction novel by George S. Schuyler Black Empire (Anthem album) Black Emperor (disambiguation)...

Eagles of the Empire is a series of historical military fiction novels written by Simon Scarrow. The series began in July 2000 with the publication of...

The Second Mexican Empire (Spanish: Segundo Imperio mexicano), officially known as the Mexican Empire (Spanish: Imperio Mexicano), was a constitutional...

in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate...

The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya, Algeria, Sudan...

The Ségou Empire (also Bambara or Bamana Empire, Bambara: ߓߊ߲ߓߊߙߊ߲߫ ߝߊ߯ߡߟߊ, romanized: Banbaran Fāmala) was one of the largest states of West Africa in...

The Aerican Empire (/əˈɛrɪkən/ ə-ERR-i-kən; French: Empire aéricain), conventionally referred to in short form as Aerica (/əˈɛrɪkə/ ə-ERR-i-kə), is an...

The Mutapa Empire – also referred to as Mwenemutapa or Munhumutapa, (Shona: Mwene we Mutapa, Portuguese: Monomotapa) – was an African empire in Zimbabwe...

Mali Empire in the late 14th century. Ruled by the Za dynasty from the capital of Gao, the empire was an important predecessor of the Songhai Empire. There...

Bling Empire is an American reality television series released on Netflix on January 15, 2021. The series focuses on the lives of wealthy, materialistic...

Empire is a British podcast launched on 15 August 2022. It is hosted by Anita Anand and William Dalrymple. The series is produced by Goalhanger Podcasts...

Roman and Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire. Events and persons of...

Wrestling Empire is a professional wrestling video game developed by Mat Dickie. Development began in 2019, and the game was released on January 11, 2021...

The Second Bulgarian Empire (Middle Bulgarian: Ц(а)рьство бл(ъ)гарское; Modern Bulgarian: Второ българско царство, romanized: Vtoro Balgarsko Tsarstvo)...

The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male is a 1979 book about sex-role-stereotyping by American radical feminist author and activist Janice Raymond...

Kitara (sometimes spelt as Kittara or Kitwara, also known as the Chwezi Empire) was an ancient legendary state that covered significant parts of western...

The Benevolent Empire is a term used to describe the network of Protestant reform societies that were prominent in the United States between 1815 and 1861...

Amsterdam Empire is a 2025 Dutch crime drama television series created by Nico Moolenaar, Piet Matthys and Bart Uytdenhouwen. The series stars Famke Janssen...

Zoo Empire (simplified Chinese: 动物园帝国; traditional Chinese: 動物園帝國; pinyin: Dòng Wù Yuán Dì Guó) is a 3D interactive construction and management simulation...

from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. The sequel to The Empire Strikes Back (1980), it is the third installment in the original Star Wars...

largest empires ever. In the 19th century the empire was internally restive and externally threatened by western powers. The defeat by the British Empire in...

Empire Burlesque is the twenty-third studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 8, 1985, on Columbia Records. Self-produced...

The Empire (French: L'Empire) is a 2024 apocalyptic science fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It is a parody of the Star...

The Sur Empire was an empire ruled by the Afghan-origin Sur dynasty in northern India for nearly 16 or 18 years, between 1538/1540 and 1556, with Sasaram...

430, they had established a vast, but short-lived, empire on the Danubian frontier of the Roman empire in Europe. Either under Hunnic hegemony, or fleeing...

numerous viceroys ruled over various parts of the increasingly vast Spanish Empire, which reached Europe, the Americas, and overseas elsewhere. In Europe,...

Empire of Wild is a novel by Cherie Dimaline, published on September 17, 2019, by Penguin Random House Canada. The novel follows a Métis woman named Joan...

Foundation and Empire is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov originally published by Gnome Press in 1952. It is the second book in...

Assyrian Empire, and the Empire of Mitanni. By the 12th century BC, much of the Hittite Empire had been annexed by the Middle Assyrian Empire, with the...

Jade Empire is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare, originally published by Microsoft Game Studios in 2005 as an Xbox exclusive. It was later...

Tiannah's Empire is a Nigerian reality television series that premiered on 22 April 2017, on Ebonylife TV, starring Toyin Lawani-Adebayo (best known as...

later to be titled Star Wars: Tales of the Empire. It explores characters related to the Galactic Empire and is again split into two arcs: one follows...

Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov, published by Doubleday Books in 1985. Robots and Empire is part of Asimov's...

"Empire of the Clouds" is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden from their sixteenth studio album, The Book of Souls. The song was issued...

antagonist of the Star Wars franchise. He first appeared in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back as the Emperor. He is also known by his Sith name, Darth Sidious...

became the new capital of the Roman Empire (330–395). Following the death of Theodosius the Great in 395, the Roman Empire was permanently divided between...

Empire Ballpark is a baseball stadium in Perth, Australia. It was built in 2004, with a seating capacity of 1500 and standing room for a further 2500....

1780 – 27 June 1839) was the founder and the first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839. Born to Maha Singh, the leader...

Empire V (Russian: «Ампир В. Повесть о настоящем сверхчеловеке») is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2006. The title is a wordplay. The word...

were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire. Each province was ruled by a Roman appointed as governor.[better source needed]...

Beauty Empire is a 2025 Philippine television drama series streaming on Viu and broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Sicat dela Cruz, it stars Barbie...

Grave Empire is a 2025 fantasy novel by Richard Swan. It takes place in the fictional setting of the Empire of the Wolf trilogy, and takes place 200 years...

Empire Maker (April 27, 2000 - January 18, 2020) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2003 Belmont Stakes and is the grandsire of the 2015...

The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern and southeastern Central Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. It...

The Empire Trilogy is a collaborative trilogy of political fantasy novels by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts, set in the fictional world...

The Yapese Empire was an ancient maritime empire located in the western Caroline Islands in the north Pacific region of Micronesia since around the 9th...

Look up Persian Empire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Persian Empire typically refers to the Achaemenid Empire, which existed between 550 and...

Mesopotamian history, marked by the succession of kingdoms and empires such as the Akkadian Empire. The early second millennium BC saw the polarization of Mesopotamian...

Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely...

Sleepless Empire is the tenth studio album by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil, released on 14 February 2025, through Century Media Records. It follows...

United Empire (ユナイテッド・エンパイア, Yunaiteddo Enpaia), originally and occasionally still called The Empire (ジ・エンパイア, Ji Enpaia), is a professional wrestling...

Empire is an American music drama television series created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong that ran on Fox from January 7, 2015, to April 21, 2020. A...

Empire of Ivory is the fourth novel in the Temeraire alternate history/fantasy series by American author Naomi Novik. Set in Africa, the novel follows...

Empire Cinemas Limited was a multiplex cinema chain in the UK. Prior to the company entering administration in July 2023, there were 13 Empire Cinemas...

The Luba Empire or Kingdom of Luba was a pre-colonial Central African state that arose in the marshy grasslands of the Upemba Depression in what is now...

The Cat Empire is an Australian jazz and funk band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1999. For most of the band's duration, the core members were Felix...

The Rashtrakuta Empire (Kannada: [raːʂʈrɐkuːʈɐ]) was a royal Indian polity ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the 6th and 10th centuries...

Empire in Flames is a supplement published by Games Workshop in 1989 as the final installment of The Enemy Within Campaign created for the fantasy role-playing...

The Toltec Empire, Toltec Kingdom or Altepetl Tollan was a political entity in pre-Hispanic Mexico. It existed through the classic and post-classic periods...

An Empire biscuit (also known as Imperial biscuit, Imperial cookie, German biscuit, Belgian biscuit and iced biscuit) is a sweet biscuit originating in...

marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and...

The Wari Empire or Huari Empire was a political formation that emerged in around 600 CE in Peru's Ayacucho Basin and grew to cover much of coastal and...

conquests. The Hellenistic period was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean, the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, and the Roman conquest...

The Narratives of Empire series is a heptalogy of historical novels by American writer Gore Vidal, published between 1967 and 2000, that chronicle the...

The Kingdom of Aksum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in North East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in...

imminent fall of the Empire, which encompasses the entire Milky Way, and a dark age lasting 30,000 years before a second empire arises. Although the momentum...

Burmese Empire could refer to: Pagan Kingdom (849–1297), or "First Burmese Empire" Taungoo Dynasty (1486–1752), or "Second Burmese Empire" Konbaung Dynasty...

Hoodlum Empire is a 1952 American crime film noir directed by Joseph Kane starring Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler...

The Trials of Empire is a 2024 fantasy novel by Richard Swan. It is the third novel in the Empire of the Wolf trilogy. The book is set in the fictional...

remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—once part of the Byzantine Empire—came under the rule of the Umayyad...

The Atlanta Empire are a women's American football team in the Extreme Football League (X League) based in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. The team...

Republic (1803–1804) under the First Consul followed by the First French Empire (1804–1815) under the Emperor of the French, Napoleon I. The wars originated...

Mistborn: The Final Empire is a fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It was published on July 17, 2006, by Tor Books and is the...

Empire of the Sun are an Australian electronic music duo formed in 2007. The duo is a collaboration between Luke Steele of alternative rock band The Sleepy...

The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie played titular character Gordon...

Sosso Empire, also written as Soso or Susu, or alternatively Kaniaga, was a kingdom of West Africa that originated as a vassal of the Ghana Empire before...

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is a 2024 American monster film directed and co-written by Adam Wingard. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed...

Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany. Prussia formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871. It was de facto dissolved by an...

The Empire of Liberty is a theme developed first by Thomas Jefferson to identify what he considered the responsibility of the United States to spread freedom...

Empire of Light is a 2022 romantic drama film directed, written, and co-produced by Sam Mendes. Set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, the...

Middle Empire may refer to: Middle Empire, see names of China Middle Eastern empires have existed in the Middle East at various periods between 5000 BCE...

Roman Empire", p. 515. Temin, "The Labor Market of the Early Roman Empire", pp. 519 and 522–524. Temin, "The Labor Market of the Early Roman Empire", pp...

millennium BCE. These civilizations enabled the establishment of regional empires and provided fertile ground for transformative philosophical and religious...

The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement is a book by Michael Strangelove first published in 2005. It explores how digital piracy...

guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the navy's dockyards in Nanjing...

Empire Company Limited is a Canadian conglomerate engaged mostly in food retail and corporate investments. Founded in 1963, the company is headquartered...

 320 BCE – c. 298 BCE) was the founder and the first emperor of the Maurya Empire, based in Magadha (present-day Bihar) in the Indian subcontinent. His rise...

The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse Koloniale Rijk) comprised overseas territories and trading posts under some form of Dutch control from the...

End of empire is a phrase that may refer to: The final phase in the decline of an imperial power, such as the British or Byzantine empires. Decolonization...

Greek-language Christian tract Doctrina Jacobi, which was compiled in the Byzantine Empire amidst the Muslim conquest of the Levant. The word became particularly widespread...

Tearmoon Empire is a Japanese light novel series written by Nozomu Mochitsuki. The series began publication on the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni...

Kitty Empire (born 1970) is a British writer and music critic. As of 2026[update] she writes for The Observer. Empire says that she was born in Montreal...

member of the Chiss race, Thrawn leads remnants of the scattered Galactic Empire in the aftermath of its fall. In the Thrawn trilogy, Thrawn returns from...

The Empire Corridor is a 461-mile (742 km) passenger rail corridor in New York State running between Penn Station in New York City and Niagara Falls, New...

Empire Today is an American home improvement and home furnishing company based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in installed carpet and flooring. The...

Survivor: Guatemala — The Maya Empire (commonly referred to as Survivor: Guatemala) is the eleventh season of the American CBS competitive reality television...

9 to 23 AD New Empire (band), an Australian band New Empire Cinema (disambiguation), several cinemas New Empire Theatre A New Empire, a 2016 EP by Ailee...

Hackney Empire is a theatre on Mare Street, in Hackney in the London Borough of Hackney. Originally designed by Frank Matcham it was built in 1901 as a...

comprising the majority of former territories of the British Empire. First held as the British Empire Games in 1930, the event has evolved through several name...

Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from...

Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis. At some point before 800 BC, the Lydian...

McNeill to describe three early modern Muslim empires: the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, and the Mughal Empire, which flourished between the mid-16th and...

Decline of an Empire is a 2014 British biographical historical drama film, produced and directed by Michael Redwood, about the life of Catherine of Alexandria...

in 479 BCE under Mardonius. During the final decades of the Achaemenid Empire, the role expected of the Immortals' hazarapatish (lit. 'one thousand overseer')...

Engineering an Empire is a television documentary miniseries that originally aired on the History Channel. The series explores the engineering and/or architectural...

Empire is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 905 at the 2020 census. Empire, along with...

Atlantis: The Lost Empire is a 2001 American animated science fiction adventure film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, produced by Don Hahn, and...

विल्वतिक्त, romanized: vilvatikta), was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist thalassocratic empire in Southeast Asia based on the island of Java (in modern-day Indonesia)...

The Sunda Democratic Empire, also known as the Sunda Empire–Earth Empire or simply Sunda Empire, was a fictional micronation based in Bandung, Indonesia...

"The Crystal Empire" is the collective name for the first and second episodes of the third season of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship...

The rulers of the Mughal Empire shared certain genealogical relations with the Mongol royals. As they emerged in a time when this distinction had become...

from the Byzantine Empire. Circa 778, Prince Leon II, with the help of the Khazars, declared independence from the Byzantine Empire and transferred his...

The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, later shortened to The Trigan Empire, was a science fiction adventure comic series written mainly by Mike Butterworth...

Alec Empire (born Alexander Wilke-Steinhof on 2 May 1972) is a German experimental electronic musician who is best known as a founding member of the band...

"Empire Ants" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, released on their third studio album Plastic Beach. It features guest vocals and instrumentation...

template Infobox ethnonym is being considered for merging. › The Akwamu Empire was an Akan state that rose in the 17th century in what is now southeastern...

The Empire Awards was an annual British awards ceremony honouring cinematic achievements in the local and global film industry. Winners were awarded the...

Empire of the Dead, also known as George Romero's Empire of the Dead, is a limited series of comic books by Marvel Comics, that began publication in 2014...

hegemony of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second...

Arising Empire is a German independent record label that focuses primarily on punk, rock, alternative, post-hardcore, and all forms and subsidiaries of...

The SS Empire was the second steamboat for the Troy Line, built in the United States in 1843, and captained by R. B. Macey. The paddle boxes were lettered...

Marshal of the Empire (French: Maréchal d'Empire) was a civil dignity during the First French Empire. It was established by Sénatus-consulte on 18 May...

Empire Brass is a brass quintet from the United States. The group was founded in 1971. The original members met at Tanglewood Music Center (in Lenox, Massachusetts)...

"Logic of Empire" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Part of his Future History series, it originally appeared in Astounding...

the Qajar dynasty lost much of its conquered territory to the Russian Empire in the first decades of the 19th century, comprising modern-day eastern...

Empire of the Wolves (French: L'Empire des loups) is a 2005 French action drama film directed by Chris Nahon, written by Christian Clavier, Jean-Christophe...

became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded by many as the first-ever Imperial city and metropolis...

trading companies. The republic became a long lasting partner to the Spanish Empire, leading to a global expansion of its activity. Genoa was known as la Superba...

initial empires during antiquity including Alexander's and the Maurya empires. It was subsequently conquered by the Kushan Empire, Gupta Empire, and then...

Empire may refer to: Invisible Empire (album), a 2003 album by Reef the Lost Cauze "Invisible Empire (song)", a song by KT Tunstall "Invisible Empire"...

The Empire of Thessalonica is a historiographic term used by some modern scholars to refer to the short-lived Greek state centred on the city of Thessalonica...

naval empire from the west that had conquered most of Europe and Libya, Plato purposely created a literary contrast with the Achaemenid Empire, the great...

Empire Exhibition may be: British Empire Exhibition, held in London in 1924 and 1925 Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938, held in Glasgow South Africa's...

cultures in the central Andes of South America, most prominently by the Inca Empire. A quipu usually consists of cotton or camelid fiber cords, and contains...

northwest. Sumer was conquered by the Semitic-speaking kings of the Akkadian Empire around 2270 BC (short chronology), but Sumerian continued as a sacred language...

The Fifth Empire (Portuguese: Quinto Império) is an esoteric concept of a global Portuguese empire with spiritual and temporal power, based on an interpretation...

The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward...

Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Gepids, among others, in Central...

was mostly depopulated by the Great Surgun of 1603–05, when the Safavid Empire forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Armenians to Iran. In 1679, the...

The Eternal Empire (Korean: 영원한 제국; RR: Yeongwonhan jeguk) is a 1995 South Korean film directed by Park Jong-won. It was chosen as Best Film at the Grand...

Empire is an unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama, United States. Empire is 4.3 miles (6.9 km) north-northeast of Sumiton. Empire has a...

dynasties that ruled the Roman Empire and its two succeeding counterparts, the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. Dynasties of states that...

considered for merging. › The Jolof Empire (Arabic: امبراطورية جولوف), also known as Great Jolof or the Wolof Empire, was a Wolof state in modern-day Senegal...

Empire Airlines is a cargo and former passenger airline based in Hayden, Idaho, near Coeur d'Alene. It operates over 120 scheduled cargo flights a day...

The Rozvi Empire (c. 1683–1866) was a Shona state established by Changamire Dombo on the Zimbabwean Plateau. The term "Rozvi" refers to their legacy as...

of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually...

communities still exist across other former territories of the Ottoman Empire. Article 66 of the Constitution of Turkey defines a Turk as anyone who is...

Red Empire may refer to 7th Special Forces Group (United States), a brigade-sized United States Army unit Empire of Japan, known as the "Red Empire of...

Empire of Lies is a 2008 thriller novel written by screenwriter and Edgar-winner Andrew Klavan. The book is a thriller in which the protagonist and narrator...

founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the...

Gunpowder Empire is a 2003 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the first part of the Crosstime Traffic series. In the novel, Jeremy and...

century AD. Modu Chanyu, the supreme leader after 209 BC, founded the Xiongnu Empire. After overthrowing their previous overlords, the Yuezhi, the Xiongnu became...

300: Rise of an Empire is a 2014 American epic historical action film directed by Noam Murro from a screenplay by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad, based...

second emperor, and last monarch of France. He created the Second French Empire in 1852, and this period saw rapid industrialization in France, rapid expansion...

fund Odey Asset Management. He wrote a book, Ghosts of Empire, about the legacy of the British Empire, published by Bloomsbury in 2011. He also co-authored...

The Thrawn trilogy, also known as the Heir to the Empire trilogy, is a trilogy of novels set in the Star Wars universe, written by Timothy Zahn between...

unification of Germany in 1871 and was a major constituent of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918. Although it took its name from the region...

Gqeberha: The Empire is a South African television series that replaced the telenovela series The Queen on Mzansi Magic. The show is set in Gqeberha (formerly...

Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled by the Safavid dynasty from...

Fantasy Empire is the sixth studio album by American noise rock band Lightning Bolt. It was released in March 2015 under Thrill Jockey Records. All tracks...

his reign, his realms and territories were referred to as the Austrian Empire, but in 1867 they were reconstituted as the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary...

The term informal empire describes the spheres of influence which a polity may develop that translate into a degree of influence over a region or country...

The North Sea Empire, also known as the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, was the personal union of the kingdoms of England, Denmark and Norway for most of the...

Celestial Empire (Chinese: 天朝; pinyin: Tiāncháo; lit. 'heavenly dynasty') is an archaic name used to refer to China or the Chinese Empire, from a literary...

America against the British Empire. The Napoleonic Wars in the 19th century saw the French colonial empire, the Spanish Empire, and Portugal face decolonization...

grew from small settlement in present-day Tunisia into the Carthaginian Empire, a major power that dominated the western half of the Mediterranean Sea...

Crystal Empire is the second full-length album by the German power metal band Freedom Call. It was released on 22 January 2001 by Steamhammer. It was the...

emperor, divided the Roman Empire between the Greek East and Latin West. The East Roman Empire, later called the Byzantine Empire, continued for a millennium...

The Empire School is a school building located at 10017 West Front Street in Empire, Michigan. The first school in Empire was the schooner "The Empire,"...

Empire Interactive was a British video game developer and publisher based in London. Founded in 1987 by Ian Higgins and Simon Jeffrey, it was acquired...

Empire, Wyoming was an all-black community of ex-slave families who settled in the Spoon Hill Creek Valley in Goshen County, Wyoming, near the Nebraska...

adoption of the name "German Empire"), 4 May 1871 (entry into force of the permanent Constitution of the German Empire), and 10 May 1871 (Treaty of Frankfurt...

Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai (Emperor Shizu or Setsen Khan), the fifth khagan-emperor of the Mongol Empire from the...

Alien Empire was a documentary television series about insects produced by the BBC, and first broadcast by PBS in 1996. It was subtitled Inside the Kingdom...

Empire Song is a song by English post-punk band Killing Joke. It was released in 1982 by E.G. Records as the first single from their third studio album...

Shadow Empire is a strategy video game developed by French studio VR Designs and published by Slitherine Software. It combines gameplay from computer wargames...

Crown the Empire is an American metalcore band from Dallas, Texas, formed in 2010. The band comprises vocalist Andrew "Andy Leo" Rockhold and guitarist...

Mansa Musa (c. 1280 – c. 1337) was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa's reign is often regarded...

meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir", was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death...

Empire is a clonally propagated cultivar of apple derived from a seed sown in 1945 by Lester C. Anderson, a Cornell University fruit nutritionist who conducted...

Empire Line may refer to: Empire silhouette style of women's dresses Empire Corridor rail line in New York State Empire Service (train), an Amtrak service...

In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the Roman Empire's western provinces collectively during any period in which they were administered...

Asia in the east. By 323 BC, the Achaemenid Empire's territories had been conquered by the Macedonian Empire during the Wars of Alexander the Great, bringing...

Empire Bakuba is an influential soukous band that formed in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1972. The name of the band refers to the Bakuba...

The Ife Empire was the first empire in Yoruba history. It was founded in what is now southwestern Nigeria and eastern Benin. A classical period starting...

Empire City is an upcoming action thriller film directed by Michael Matthews and written by S. Craig Zahler and Brian Tucker, based on an original story...

throughout Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated...

The graveyard of empires is a sobriquet often associated with Afghanistan. It originates from several historical examples of foreign powers who were unable...

The Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino are a Minor League Baseball team of the California League and the Single-A affiliate of the Seattle Mariners...

Hundreds of Empire ships were employed by the Government of the United Kingdom. They were acquired from a number of sources: many were built for the government;...

Empire of the Dark is a 1991 American fantasy action horror film written, co-produced, directed and edited by Steve Barkett, who also stars in the film...

The Tuʻi Tonga Empire, or Tongan Empire, are descriptions sometimes given to Tongan expansionism and projected hegemony in Oceania which began around 950...

Rebecca's Empire (also written as the variant Rebeccas Empire) were an Australian indie pop-rock band formed in 1994. Their mainstay members were Rebecca...

established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire. Babylon was also...

The Kong Empire (1710–1898), also known as the Wattara Empire or Ouattara Empire for its founder Seku Watara, was a pre-colonial state centered in what...

preceding the powerful Achaemenid Empire. The frequent interference in the Zagros Mountains by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, located in Upper Mesopotamia, led...

Festival of Empire was a major imperial exhibition held at London's Crystal Palace from 12 May to 1 October 1911, organized to celebrate the coronation...

The Short Empire was a four-engined monoplane transport flying boat, designed and developed by Short Brothers during the 1930s to meet the requirements...

Cattle Empire is a 1958 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren, starring Joel McCrea. The film was shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope...

centre of attention. Although Frederick had forbidden the princes of the Empire from fighting with Maximilian in tournaments, Maximilian gave himself the...

American Empire is a French-inspired Neoclassical style of American furniture and decoration that takes its name and originates from the Empire style introduced...

The Empire of Man (also called the Prince Roger series and the March Upcountry series) is a series of science fiction books by David Weber and John Ringo...

area. Empire Township was organized in 1858, and named after New York, the Empire State. The township voted to incorporate as the city of Empire on February...

Mistress of the Empire is a fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. It is the third and final book in the Empire Trilogy and was...

Kingdom, the Russian Empire, the United States, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Empire of Japan against the Central Powers of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary...

Empire Central is the fifteenth album and seventh live album by American band Snarky Puppy. Released on September 30, 2022, on GroundUP Music, it won Best...

Metropolitan Statistical Area. Empire is agriculturally active, and is home to the new Empire Community Park. In 1854, the town of Empire City was founded on the...

Inscription of Darius the Great as one of the satrapies of the Achaemenid Empire; it was a special satrapy, ruled by a crown prince or an intended heir....

Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800. He united most of Western and Central Europe and was the first...

Albany Empire may refer to: Albany Theatre (formerly the Albany Empire), a multi-purpose arts centre in Deptford, South London Albany Empire (AFL), a...

Restaurant Empire (simplified Chinese: 奇迹餐厅; traditional Chinese: 奇蹟餐廳; pinyin: Qí Jì Cān Tīng) is a 2003 business simulation video game created by Trevor...

Velvet Empire was a Canadian pop music group that was formed through the second edition of the Global TV show Popstars, entitled "Boy Meets Girl". The...

political atmosphere in South India shifted from smaller kingdoms to large empires with the ascendancy of Badami Chalukyas. A Southern India-based kingdom...

Established in 2006, Bhangra Empire is a San Francisco Bay Area dance team in California. The team is composed of undergraduates, graduate students, and...

"The Empire of the Ants" is a 1905 short story by H. G. Wells about an explorer who is dispatched to South America to investigate reports of intelligent...

German colonial empire (German: deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in...

Empire is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Queensrÿche, released on September 4, 1990. The album is Queensrÿche's most commercially...

The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent...

European countries had consulates in Bitola. Bitola, known during the Ottoman Empire as Manastır or Monastir, is one of the oldest cities in North Macedonia...

clothing worn during the Ottoman Empire. Fashion during the Ottoman Empire was a significant facet of the empire's cultural identity, serving as a marker...

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire was the third Islamic caliphate, ruled by the Abbasid dynasty. The dynasty was descended from Muhammad's uncle...

during the Middle Ages and early modern period, including the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. The house takes its name from Habsburg Castle, a fortress built...

Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more formal empire. While related to the concept of colonialism, imperialism is a distinct...

regime's political legitimacy through symbolic continuity with the fallen Tang empire. Despite its initial military strength, the Later Tang dynasty eventually...

of Ammi-Saduqa, (c. 1638–1618 BC), in low middle chronology. The Mitanni Empire was a strong regional power limited by the Hittites to the north, Egyptians...

The Empire Diner is a restaurant in New York City that launched a vogue for upscale retro diners, and whose art deco exterior became an iconic image in...

borders of the Roman Empire. The term has been extended in modern times to refer to the frontier defences in other parts of the empire, such as in the east...

25,000 years, created through the gradual fusion of the Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. The...

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, is a work of non-fiction...

During his reign in Aquitaine, Louis was charged with the defence of the empire's southwestern frontier. He conquered Barcelona from the Emirate of Córdoba...

of Athens, Sparta and Thebes, and briefly subordinate to the Achaemenid Empire. During the reign of the Argead king Philip II (359–336 BC), Macedonia with...

509–44 BC Roman Empire, 27 BC – AD 395 Western Roman Empire, 286–476 Kingdom of Italy, 476–493 Ostrogothic Kingdom, 493–536 Eastern Roman Empire, 536–546 Ostrogothic...

Roman's Empire is a British television comedy programme starring Mathew Horne, Neil Dudgeon, Chris O'Dowd, Montserrat Lombard and Sarah Solemani. Written...

capital of four empires: the Roman Empire (330–395), the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire (395–1204 and 1261–1453), the Latin Empire (1204–1261), and...

Empire Resorts is a gaming company that owns and operates Resorts World Catskills and Monticello Raceway in the Catskill Mountains, 90 miles (140 km) from...

Empire of the Moghul is a series of historical fiction novels written by Alex Rutherford (the pen name for Diana and Michael Preston). The series consists...

(Another 26 men had served as "Reich chancellors" of the previous German Empire from 1871 to 1945.) The current officeholder is Friedrich Merz of the Christian...

"Empire State of Mind" is a song recorded by American rapper Jay-Z and American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, for the former's eleventh studio album The...

Empire is a computer software for semiempirical Molecular Orbital calculations designed to run in parallel on multi-core desktop computers and on massively...

The Empire Brunei is a luxury hotel located in Kampong Jerudong, near the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan, in the Brunei–Muara District of Brunei. Originally...

The Tukulor Empire(Arabic: الخلافة التجانية; Fula: Laamateeri Tijaani; French: Empire toucouleur; (1852–1903) was an Islamic state in the mid-19th century...

(from Latin: imperator, via Old French: empereor) is the (male) ruler of an empire. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress...

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties is a history book about life and events in China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, between the...

Shade Empire is a Finnish extreme metal band, formed in 1999 in the city of Kuopio. Shade Empire's prevalent lyrical subjects are death, destruction, hatred...

For Blood and Empire is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band Anti-Flag. It was released on March 21, 2006. It was the band's first release...

Robotic Empire is an American independent record label based out of Richmond, Virginia, specializing in hardcore punk, heavy metal, and alternative rock...

Empire of Death may refer to: Empire of Death (Bishop novel), a BBC Books Doctor Who original novel written by David Bishop, featuring the Fifth Doctor...

The Lost Empire may refer to: Tarzan and the Lost Empire, a 1929 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs Lost Empires (novel), a 1965 novel by J. B. Priestley Lost...

The Juneau Empire is a newspaper in Juneau, Alaska, United States. It publishes issues on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The newspaper was first published on...

(Schwarz-Weiß-Rot), also known as the flag of the German Empire, the Imperial Flag (Kaiserflagge) or the Empire Flag (Reichsflagge), is a combination of the flag...

considered the new Roman Empire. These include but are not limited to: The Byzantine Empire (extinguished 1453), the Roman Empire after the loss of some...

Empire Tower may refer to: Empire Tower, Bangkok in Bangkok, Thailand Empire Tower, Colombo in Colombo, Sri Lanka Empire Tower, Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur...

eastern part of the Frankish Empire under the Ottonian dynasty in the 10th century, forming the core of the Holy Roman Empire. In subsequent centuries the...

Early Christians were heavily persecuted throughout the Roman Empire until the early 4th century. Although Christianity initially emerged as a small Jewish...

Charles the Fat (839 – 13 January 888) was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest...

led the Crusade of Nicopolis but was decisively defeated by the Ottoman Empire. Afterwards, he founded the Order of the Dragon to fight the Turks and secured...

group native to Mesopotamia, with historical roots in the ancient Assyrian Empire. They speak varieties of Neo-Aramaic, a branch of the Semitic language family...

literature using this term has "privileged the sedentary and literate empires at either end of Eurasia" thereby ignoring the contributions of steppe...

Eastern Christianity as it developed through the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Another definition was created by the Cold War, as Europe was...

Empire is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Washoe County, Nevada, United States, with a population estimated at 65 (2021)...

Strange Empire is a Canadian Western television series that aired on CBC Television in the 2014–15 television season. Created by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik...

Geta murdered by the Praetorian Guard and became sole ruler of the Roman Empire. Julia Domna had a significant share in governance, since Caracalla found...

Parliament of the United Kingdom which abolished slavery in the British Empire by way of compensated emancipation. The act was legislated by Whig Prime...

Sins of Empire is a fantasy novel by American author Brian McClellan, the first book in the flintlock fantasy trilogy Gods of Blood and Powder. It was...

Between 633 and 651, the Rashidun Caliphate conquered the Sasanian Empire as part of the early Muslim conquests, which began under the Islamic prophet...

Assyrian Empire, and Old Babylonian period in Mesopotamia, being younger by approximately sixty years than the Akkadian-speaking Old Assyrian Empire in Upper...

Empire series may refer to: Galactic Empire series or Empire series by Isaac Asimov The Empire Duet or Empire series, two novels by Orson Scott Card Empire...

restored the Empire's eastern provinces after his conquest of the Palmyrene Empire in 273. The following year he conquered the Gallic Empire in the west...

kingdoms and republics. Between 1801 and 1917, then part of the Russian Empire, it was the seat of the Caucasus Viceroyalty, governing both the northern...

Empire Ranch is a working cattle ranch in southeastern Pima County, Arizona, that was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In its...

eastern Deccan (the Andhra region), although they first established their empire in western Deccan after having served as Mauryan subordinates. Himanshu...

Crisis of Empire is a 1988 military science fiction tetralogy by David Drake and four co-authors, comprising: An Honorable Defense: Crisis of Empire I (with...

condemning the Russian annexation of Crimea on-air, and then launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series...

created a short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire. The Babylonian Empire rapidly fell apart...

often called Montezuma, was the ninth emperor of the Aztec Empire (also known as the Mexica Empire), reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520. Through his marriage...

Frankish support. The revolt allegedly also been supported by the Byzantine Empire. Samo realised that the rebels lacked a strong leadership, which he used...

which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or empires. The Aztec Empire was a confederation of three city-states established in 1427:...

Political dissidence in the Empire of Japan covers individual Japanese dissidents against the policies of the Empire of Japan. Shūsui Kōtoku, a Japanese...

Third Burmese Empire (တတိယမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်), was the last dynasty that ruled Burma from 1752 to 1885. It created the second-largest empire in Burmese history...

Empire Wind is a planned offshore wind farm in the New York Bight off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, U.S., approximately 15–30 miles (24–48 km)...

The Chocolate Empire is a 2025 Kenyan crime drama set in Nairobi, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Jimmy Gathu, Sanaipei Tande, and Mumbi Maina...

The historic Town of Empire is a statutory town located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 345 at the 2020 United...

The Collapsing Empire is a space opera novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on March 21, 2017. It is the first book...

Empire Rose (1982–2002) was one of the most popular Thoroughbred mares to race in New Zealand and Australia. She was a gigantic chestnut, only just fitting...

The Fallen Empire is the third studio album by Finnish metal band Altaria, released on 24 March 2006. It is their first album with guitarist Juha Pekka...

Paper Empire is the seventh studio album by the New Orleans–based rock trio Better Than Ezra, released on May 12, 2009, through Red Distribution. It is...

116°14′14″W / 33.679811°N 116.237256°W / 33.679811; -116.237256 The Empire Polo Club is a 1,000-acre event venue in Indio, California, located in the...

reign stabilized the empire and ended the Crisis of the Third Century. He initiated the process of permanently splitting the Roman Empire, appointing fellow...

The Shi'ar empire (or Imperium) is a vast collection of alien species, cultures, and worlds situated close to the Skrull and Kree empires. The Shi'ar...

appointed ministers, who came largely from the scholarly gentry class. The Han Empire was divided into commanderies directly controlled by the central government...

Schwab [de] (1887–1967) and was originally introduced in 1928. The German Empire of 1871–1918 had re-introduced the medieval coat of arms of the Holy Roman...

Kurda Nineveh Tell al-Rimah Ekallatum The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to c. 1894–1595 BC, and comes after the end of Sumerian...

Statham's Transporter 3 as a great example of kinetic pop art. Chris Hewitt of Empire Magazine, noted the film as "a dour, drab affair", but credited the film...

antiquity, and was the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire between 286 and 324, during the Tetrarchy introduced by Diocletian. Following...

Hundreds of Empire ships were employed by the Government of the United Kingdom. They were acquired from a number of sources: many were built for the government;...

"Soldiers of the Empire" is the 119th episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the 21st episode of the fifth season. It was directed...

1917–1918, the demands of Austria-Hungary's military alliance with the German Empire and its de facto subservience to the German High Command, and its conclusion...

Zoroastrian Empire may refer to empires with Zoroastrianism as the state religion: Achaemenid Empire, an empire based in Western Asia in Iran, founded...

My Empire is a city building game with an ancient Greco-Roman theme. The game was developed and published by Playfish and was released via Facebook in...

Empire is a village on Lake Michigan in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan in the United States. Located in southwestern Leelanau County, its...

Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties. In 800, it evolved into the Carolingian Empire, thus becoming the longest lasting Germanic kingdom from the era of Great...

Cassiopean Empire is a role-playing game published by Norton Games in 1982. Cassiopean Empire is a science-fiction space-adventure system, with rules for...

The Empire is the eleventh studio album by Polish death metal band Vader. The album was described in a review on Blabbermouth as "vintage Vader". Piotr...

Empire of the Undead is the eleventh studio album by German power metal band Gamma Ray, released on 28 March 2014. It was their first album to feature...

Hidden Empire is a 2009 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the second book (out of two) in the Empire duet. Empire Shadow...

a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire. It was ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (Persian: ایلخانان, romanized: Īlkhānān)...

Naked Empire is the eighth book in Terry Goodkind's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth. This book opens with Richard and Kahlan still in the Old World...

Middle Ages of European history, following the decline of the Western Roman Empire, and preceding the High Middle Ages (c. 11th to 14th centuries). The alternative...

ɪk/; Koine Greek: Πτολεμαϊκὴ βασιλεία, Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or Ptolemaic Empire was an ancient Greek polity based in Egypt during the Hellenistic period...

waged another brief, more successful war in the east against the Parthian Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 197 and expanding the eastern frontier...

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) was an American emo band from Michigan. It was formed in 2006 originally as a solo project of band member Keith...

The Empire 8 (E8) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. The E8 sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition...

I-Empire is the second studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It was officially released worldwide on November 1, 2007 from the Angels...

The Empire Mall is a shopping mall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The anchor stores are Dillard's, Macy's, Dick's Sporting Goods, and JCPenney...

could veto the actions of the other consul. After the establishment of the Empire (27 BC), the consuls became mere symbolic representatives of Rome's republican...

Empire lite is a form of imperialism in which major powers shape world affairs using diplomacy and short-term military intervention rather than conquest...

capture of Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, by the Ottoman Empire. The city was captured on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination...

of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defeated it, in the process stripping the Ottomans of their European...

allies enabled the Mongol Empire to become the contemporarily largest polity in human history. Today, the former Mongol Empire remains the world's largest...

After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order (French: Après L'Empire: essai sur la décomposition du système américain) is a 2002 book by French...

Machineries of Empire is a series of military science fiction/science fantasy/space opera novels by American writer Yoon Ha Lee and published by Solaris...

the Ganja Khanate until 1804; after Qajar Iran ceded it to the Russian Empire following the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813, it became part of the administrative...

Fourth Empire may refer to: Fourth British Empire, a concept in the historiography of the British Empire Fourth world-empire, the last of the four kingdoms...

The Empire Classic is an annual college basketball event played in November at the beginning of the season and televised by ESPN. Originally known as the...

franchise, including the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Galactic Empire, the Imperial Remnant, and the First Order, are shown to have originated...

The emperors of the Mughal Empire, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty, ruled the empire from its inception on 21 April 1526 to its dissolution...

empires in exchange for loans and political support, but the move only contributed to further economic decline. Iranian dependence on the two empires...

Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. is the largest producer of kosher poultry in the United States. The company's headquarters, hatchery, and processing facility...

were among the most influential powers in the world. Highly Persianized empires built by the Samanids, Ghaznavids, and Ghurids significantly contributed...

Empire is an American comic book limited series created by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson. It was published between 2000 and 2004 by Gorilla Comics (an Image...

Thai Empire may refer to: Great Thai Empire, a name used under the idea of Pan-Thaiism in the 1930s–1940s Other historical kingdoms of Thailand; see Siam...

Empire Stores is a former warehouse complex along the waterfront Brooklyn Bridge Park within the neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York City, in the...

Galactic empires are a science fiction setting trope, in which most or all of the habitable planets in the setting's galaxy are ruled by a single centralized...

Railway Empire is a railroad construction and management simulation game developed by Gaming Minds Studio and published by Kalypso Media. It was announced...

Moors were also mentioned by Tacitus as having revolted against the Roman Empire in 24 AD. During the Latin Middle Ages, Mauri was used to refer to Berbers...

The Kingdom of Benin or Empire of Benin, also known as Great Benin, is a traditional kingdom in southern Nigeria. It has no historical relation to the...

The Central African Empire (French: Empire centrafricain) was an African monarchical state that was established on 4 December 1976 when the then-President...

story of Michael Corleone, who is now trying to legitimize his criminal empire, and shows the rise of Sonny Corleone's illegitimate son Vincent Corleone...

An evil empire is a speculative fiction trope in which a major antagonist of the story is a technologically advanced nation, typically ruled by an evil...

Empire Dragway, formerly known as New York International Raceway Park, is a quarter-mile drag strip located in Leicester, New York. The track first opened...

Empire Fusilier was the name of two British merchant ships during the Second World War: MV Empire Fusilier, an 8,202 GRT tanker, completed as Empire Bombardier...

Hundreds of Empire ships were employed by the Government of the United Kingdom. They were acquired from a number of sources: many were built for the government;...

and his Hellenistic successors, the Seleucid Empire, Pergamon, the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire. Over this time Phrygians became Christian and...