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  2. List of empires - Wikipedia

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    Benin Empire: 1180: 1897: 717 Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State 1911 1924 7 (broken up from 1915 to 1921) Bornu Empire: 1380: 1893: 513 Empire of Brazil: 1822: 1889: 67 Britannic Empire: 286: 296: 10 British Empire: 1583: 1997: 414 Bruneian Empire: 1368: 1888: 520 Bukhara Empire: 1501: 1785: 284 Bulgarian Empire (Great Bulgaria ...

  3. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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    Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed. For example: in the year 1800, European powers collectively claimed approximately 20% of the Earth's land surface that they did not effectively control. [ 8 ]

  4. List of former monarchies - Wikipedia

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    Ethiopian Empire (1270–1974) Sultanate of Zanzibar (1856–1964) Central African Empire (1976–1979) The Americas. First Empire of Haiti (1804–1806) Kingdom of Haiti (1811–1820) United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822) First Mexican Empire (1821–1823) Empire of Brazil (1822–1889) Second Empire of Haiti (1849 ...

  5. List of ancient great powers - Wikipedia

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    The Sasanian Empire is the name used for the fourth Iranian dynasty, and the second Persian Empire (226–651). The empire's territory encompassed all of today's Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Afghanistan, eastern parts of Turkey, and parts of Syria, Pakistan, and large parts of Caucasia, Central Asia and Arabia.

  6. Category:Former empires - Wikipedia

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    Category:History maps by country; ... List of largest empires; List of largest empires and polities on Indian subcontinent; A. Abbasid Caliphate; Achaemenid Empire;

  7. List of former transcontinental countries - Wikipedia

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    German Empire (4) – Europe, South America, [map] Asia, [map] Africa [map] Guna people (2) – North America, South America (the Guna people were living in what is now Northern Colombia and the Darién Province of Panama , including the Darién Gap (the border between North and South America), at the time of the Spanish invasion in the early ...

  8. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Tabula Peutingeriana (1265, medieval map of the Roman Empire, believed to be based on 4th century source material) Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285; the largest medieval map known still to exist) Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436)

  9. List of kingdoms and empires in African history - Wikipedia

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    There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".