This is a navigational list of empires.
Empires
Empire Start year End year Duration (years)Achaemenid Empire Afsharid Iran Akkadian Empire 180Akwamu 238United States of America (disputed)1776present 250Angevin Empire 88Aq Qoyunlu1467150841Armenian Empire of Tigranes the Great34Asante Empire 232Aulikara Empire 22Austria-Hungary 51Austrian Empire 63Avar Khaganate567822255Ayutthaya Kingdom 416Aztec Empire 196Old Babylonian Empire 299Neo-Babylonian Empire 87Bamana Empire 149Belgian colonial empire 55Kingdom of Benin 717Empire of Brazil 67Britannic Empire 10British Empire1583 /present414/443British Raj (Indian Empire)89Sultanate of Brunei (1368–1888)520Old Great Bulgaria36First Bulgarian Empire337Second Bulgarian Empire211Eastern Roman Empire395 1058Carolingian Empire80088888Carthaginian Empire Central African Empire197619793Chenla 252Chimor 570People's Republic of China (disputed)1949present76Chola Empire 431Athenian Empire454 BC 404 BC 50Danish colonial empire Durrani Empire 95Dutch colonial empire 380Dzungar Khanate16341758124Empire of Charles V 37New Kingdom of Egypt 473Elamite Empire 110Ethiopian Empire 704First French Empire 11Second French Empire 18French colonial empire 181428018301980/present150/196Funan500Gallic Empire14Gaza Empire71German colonial empire 36German Empire 48German Empire (1848–1849) 1Ghana Empire 405Ghaznavid Empire 209Goguryeo 705Goryeo 474Golden Horde 262Grand Duchy of Lithuania 559Empire of Great Fulo 264Gupta Empire 230Habsburg monarchy 636First Empire of Haiti 2Second Empire of Haiti 10Han dynasty202 BC220 AD422Hephthalite Empire 120Hittite Empire 422Holy Roman Empire800/962 1006/844Hoysala Kingdom 317Hunnic Empire 99Iberian Union 60Ife Empire 420Ilkhanate 79Inca Empire 134Italian Empire 1960 78Empire of Japan 79State of Japan1947present79Jin dynasty (266–420) 154Jin dynasty (1115–1234)11151234119Jolof Empire199Kaabu330Kanem–Bornu Empire18931193Khmer Empire 629Khwarazmian Empire 154Kingdom of Georgia10081490482Kong Empire 188Korean Empire 13Kushan Empire 315Kingdom of Kush 1130Latin Empire 57Liao dynasty9071125218Macedonia 660Majapahit234Mali Empire 435Maratha Confederacy 144Massina Empire 42Maurya Empire 136Median Empire (disputed) 128First Mexican Empire 2Second Mexican Empire 3Middle Assyrian Empire307Ming dynasty 276Mongol Empire 162Great Moravia74Mughal Empire 331Nanda Empire 24Nazi Germany 12Kingdom of Nepal240Neo-Assyrian Empire302Neo-Sumerian Empire 108North Sea Empire 29Empire of Nicaea 57Odrysian kingdom 450Omani Empire 158Ostrogothic Kingdom 60Ottoman Empire 623Oyo Empire 596Pagan kingdom 438Pala Empire 411Palmyrene Empire 3Parthian Empire 471Kingdom of Pontus 342Portuguese Empire Ptolemaic Kingdom 275Purépecha Empire13001530Relación de Michoacán, complete text 230Qara Khitai 94Qing dynasty 268Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)150Roman Empire 1480Rozvi Empire 206Russian Empire 196Safavid Iran235Samo's Empire 27Sasanian Empire 427Samanid Empire 180Seleucid Empire 249Seljuk Empire 157Serbian Empire 25Shu Han 42Shunga Empire112Sikh Empire 50Singhasari1222129270Song dynasty 319Songhai Empire 127Soviet Union (disputed)1922199168Spanish Empire 496Sui dynasty58161837Sur Empire1540 16Swedish Empire 286Tang dynasty618907289Tây Sơn dynasty 24Empire of Thessalonica 18Tibetan Empire 87Timurid Empire 137Empire of Trebizond 257Toltec Empire 626Tuʻi Tonga Empire 915Tukulor Empire41First Turkic Khaganate193Empire of Vietnam 1945 (March) 1945 (August) 0 (5 months)Vijayanagara Empire 310Wari Empire 500Wassoulou Empire 20Western Chalukya Empire 209Western Roman Empire 81Yuan dynasty12601368108Zhou dynasty 790
See also Historic recurrence List of former sovereign states List of former monarchies List of medieval great powers Middle Eastern empires Political history of the world
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