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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. Category:Former empires in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Former empires in North America (2 C, 8 P) S. ... Pages in category "Former empires in the Americas" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.

  5. Timeline of the European colonization of North America

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    1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of the Aztec Empire. 1521: Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida. 1524: Pedro de Alvarado conquers present-day Guatemala and El Salvador. 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sails along most of the east coast. 1525: Estêvão Gomes enters Upper New York Bay and reaches Nova Scotia [9] [10]

  6. List of colonies - Wikipedia

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    The result of the Boer Wars was the annexation of the Boer Republics to the British Empire in 1902 Union of South ... (Independent since 1847, US protectorate until ...

  7. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    List of incidents of civil unrest in Colonial North America; List of North American settlements by year of foundation; Political culture of the United States; Slavery in the colonial United States; Social history of soldiers and veterans in the United States; Thirteen Colonies; United Colonies, the name for the emerging nation, 1775–1776 ...

  8. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492–1830. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300133554. Foster, Stephen, ed. (2014). British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191662744. Gipson, Lawrence (1936). The British Empire Before the American Revolution. Caxton Printers.

  9. List of countries formerly ruled by the United States

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    Name of territory Dates Status Comments The Philippines: 1898–1946 Unincorporated territory First under military administration, later under an insular government in preparation for independence [1] Cuba: 1898–1902 Provisional military government Under military administration after Spain ceded Cuba to the United States [2] Puerto Rico: 1898 ...