List Of Empires

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This is an alphabetical list of empires that stretched far beyond their geographical and cultural limits to govern other parts of the world. The list includes empires that may only have had cultural and economic influences. Some historians may consider some of the empires listed below as dynasties instead.

A {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Demise!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Abbasid Empire||Modern-day Iraq||750||1517||||See also [Umayyad Empire]||Iran||Anshan (Persia)||650 BC||||aka [Persian Empire]||Sumer||[2350 BC|||-|[Almohad||[Marrakech and later on Seville, Spain|-|[Almoravid||[Marrakech|-|[Armenian Empire||modern day Armenia||[95 BC|||| Tigranes was named as the king of kings.|-|[Assyrian Empire||Mesopotamia||[1920 BC||||Exact origin at [Tigris|-|Athenian Empire||Ancient Greece||[477 BC||||Also known as 'Delian League. It was an association of Greek city-states|-|[Austrian Empire||Modern day Austria||1804||1867||||Replaced the [Holy Roman Empire]||Central Europe||1867||1918||||Replaced the [Austrian Empire]||Mesoamerica||1375||1521||Destroyed by invasion of Spanish Empire||The capital of [Mexico, Mexico City, is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan.|}

B {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Demise!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Babylonian Empire||Mesopotamia||[1900 BC||||See also [Neo-Babylonian Empire]||Belgium||1901||1962||||overseas possessions were referred to as "the colonies" rather than as an empire|-|[Brazilian Empire||Brazil||1822||1889||||Established by the [House of Braganza went into exile in Brazil after Napoleonic occupation of Portugal]||Early Modern Britain||London||[Danube||Pliska, Preslav, Ohrid ruler [Asparukh of Bulgaria. Under Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria became the first powerful Slavic peoples Empire. Falls to the Byzantine Empire under Basil II|-|Second Bulgarian Empire||[Veliko Tarnovo. Under the [Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria became the most powerful state on the Balkans]||Asia Minor||395||1453||Destroyed by invasion of Ottoman Empire||Term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the [Greek language-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages|}

C {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Central African Empire||Central African Republic||1977||1979||[Jean-Bédel Bokassa declared himself Emperor Bokassa in 1977]||India||600||1200||see [Chalukya dynasty||[Southern India||B.C.||15th century||A [Tamil Nadu empire|-|Chinese Empire||China||1911||See [Qin Dynasty and Qing Dynasty]||[Southern India and later [Gangaikonda Cholapuram empire|-|}

D {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Danish Empire||Denmark||13th century||1953||The colonial status of [Greenland was removed in 1953]||Netherlands||1620|| - ||See also [Dutch East India Company|}

E {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Elamite Empire||Ilam Province, Iran, Anshan (Persia) and Susa||2700 BC|||-|[Ancient Egypt||Egypt, Africa] ||[3150 BC|||-|}

F {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Fatimid||[Cairo||[France||1804||1814|||-|[French colonial empires#First French colonial empire||France||1605||1803|||-|[Second French Empire||[Paris||[France||1830||-|||-|[Frankish Empire||Gaul, ([Aix-la-Chapelle)||5th century||10th century|||}

G {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Gallic Empire||Rhineland-Palatinate||260||274||In [Latin language, Imperium Galliarum|-|German Empire||Germany||1871||1918|-|[Ghana Empire||Sahelian kingdom||Koumbi Saleh||[Greater Iran||963||1187||See also [Persian Empire]||Central Asia||1378||1502||Broke up of the [Mongol Empire]||Mitteleuropa/Central Europe|-|[Gupta Empire||[Ujjain||240||550|}

H {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Empire of Haiti (1804-1806)||North America||Port-au-Prince declared himself Emperor|-|[Harsha||[Kannauj||[Israel||[1050 BC||aka "United Kingdom of Israel and Judah" later divided to [Kingdom of Israel until 720 BC and Kingdom of Judah until 586 BC.]||Anatolia, now named [Boğazkale, Turkey||[1180 BC|-|[Hoysala||[Belur||[Central Europe||||1000||1918|||}

I {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Incan Empire||Peru||1438||1533|-|[Indus Valley,[Pakistan,Afghanistan,[Harappa,Lothal||[1700 BC|-|[Brian Boru#Emperor of the Irish||Ireland||1005||1014|||-|[Italian Empire||Modern day [Italy||1885||1941|}

J {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Empire of Japan||Japan||1871||1945||See also [Meiji Era, Taisho Era and Showa Era|}

K {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Khmer Empire||Nowadays Cambodia||802||1462||seceded from the kingdom of [Chenla]||Southwest Africa||Mbanza Kongo kingdom that dominated West Central Africa and included parts of modern day [Angola, Republic of the Congo, and the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]||Korean Peninsula|-|[Khwarezmid Empire||Afghanistan||||11th Century||1220|||}

L {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Latin Empire||Asia Minor||1204||1261||See also [Crusader states|}

M {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Macedonian]||Pella||[309 BC|-|[Magadhan]||Rajgir (modern Rajgir)||684 BC||See also [Mahajanapadas and Maurya Empire]||West Africa||1235||1645||A [Mandinka empire founded by Sundiata Keita]||Indian subcontinent||1674||1818||Also known as the Maratha Confederacy. |-|[Maurya Empire||Kingdoms of Ancient India||Pataliputra||[185 BC. [Ashoka transformed it into the first Buddhism empire|-|First Mexican Empire||||1822||1823||Preceded the 'Second Mexican Empire which was short lived (1864-1867). See also [Mexican Imperial Orders]||Modern-day Mexico|-|[Micronesian Empire, [Pacific Ocean||unknown||unknown|||-|[Ming Dynasty||China||1368||1644|||-|[Mitanni||[Taite and Washshukanni (Khabur River)]|-|Mongol Empire||Mongolia||1206||1368||split into four parts ([Yuan Dynasty, Il-Khanate, Chagatai Khanate and Golden Horde)]||India,Pakistan and [Delhi. "Mughal" is a [Persian language word for the Mongols|}

N {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Nicaean Empire||[Anatolia||1204||1261|||}

O {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Ottoman Empire||Anatolia, [Bursa, Turkey, Edirne and lastly Istanbul|}

P {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Pala Empire||Bengal||750||1174|-|[Palmyrene Empire||Syria (Roman province)||260||273||broke off the [Roman Empire during the Crisis of the Third Century]||India||[1st century AD||[Persia||[200 BC|-|[Portuguese Empire||Portugal||1415||1999||Was the earliest and longest lived of the [colonial Western European empires|}

Q {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Qing||[Beijing||1636||1912||Last dyansty of the Imperial Period|}

R {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Rashidun||[Riyadh||[Central Europe|-|[Roman Empire||Modern Italy||509BC/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_republic27 BC||476(West)/1453(East)||See also [Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Roman Republic and Imperium]||Russia||1721||1917||formed from the powerful medieval state of [Muscovy|}

S {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Sassanian Empire||Iran||Ctesiphon|-|[Satavahana||[Paithan(Pune)]||199||Indian Middle Kingdoms Middle kingdoms of India]||Iran||Seleucia, then Antioch||[60 BC||[Aral Sea, Asia Minor and later on [Isfahan||[History of Serbia||Skopje||Modern-day northern [Vojvodina, Serbia||1526||1527|| state of a mercenary, [Jovan Nenad]||Thailand ,[Thonburi and Bangkok||[Punjab region||1801||1849||Preceded the [British Empire in the Indian subcontinent]||West Africa||15th century||16th century||one of the largest African empires in history. Replaced [Mali Empire]||Russia||1922||1991||Not a de jure empire. It referred to economic and cultural influence|-|[Spanish Empire||Iberian peninsula||1492|| - ||Was the first truly [global empire]||[Scandinavia||1611||1718|||}

T {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Demise!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Teotihuacano Empire||Mesoamerica||[300 BC||||Teotihuacán translated as "city where men become gods"|-|[Nazi Germany||Germany||1933||1945||Destroyed by invasion of Allied forces in WWII||Nazi Germany signed a treaty (Tripartite Pact) with the [Empire of Japan and Italian Empire Empires|-|History of Tibet#The Tibetan Empire||Tibet||7th century||11th century|||-|[Timurid Empire||Persia and Central Asia and later on [Heratn word kürügän|-|[Empire of Trebizond||Black Sea - modern name Trabzon||1204||1461||||Successor state of the [Byzantine Empire]||Tonga, Pacific Ocean||[950 AD||||See [History of Tonga|}

U {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Umayyad Empire||Syria and later on [Córdoba, Spain, Spain|-|[Ur III Empire||[Sumer||[2100 BC||The dynasty/empire is also known as the 'Sumerian Renaissance|}

V {| class="wikitable"|-!align=center|Empire!align=center|Origin!align=center|Capital!align=center nowrap|From!align=center nowrap|To!align=center nowrap|Note|-|Vedic period||India||1200||See [Kingdoms of ancient India and Mahajanapadas||[Northeast Italy||9th century||1797||More a republic than an empire. Also known as The Most Serene Republic of Venice|-|[Vijayanagara Empire||South India||1336||1660||The founding of the original kingdom was based on the principality of [Anegondi|}

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See also

List of extinct states
List of largest empires

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