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The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests, conquering Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, the Maghreb and Hispania ( al-Andalus ). At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km 2 (4,300,000 sq mi), [1] making it one of the largest empires in history in terms of area. The dynasty was toppled by the Abbasids in 750.
The Second Bulgarian Empire ( Middle Bulgarian: Ц (а)рьство бл (ъ)гарское; [2] [3] Modern Bulgarian: Второ българско царство, romanized : Vtorо Balgarskо Tsarstvo) was a medieval Bulgarian [4] [5] [ambiguous] state that existed between 1185 and 1396. [6] A successor to the First Bulgarian Empire, [7] [8 ...
Badshahi Mosque, in Lahore, Pakistan, is the last and largest imperial mosque built by the Mughals [2] Mughal architecture is the type of Indo-Islamic architecture developed by the Mughals in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries throughout the ever-changing extent of their empire in the Indian subcontinent. It developed from the architectural ...
June 18, 1975. The Wheelock Law Office is a historic commercial building at 135 North Main Street in the city of Barre, Vermont. Built in 1871 for a prominent local lawyer, it is a fine example of Second Empire architecture, and a rare surviving domestically scaled building in an area now primarily filled with larger commercial buildings.
The Empire of Trebizond, or Trapezuntine Empire, was a successor state of the Byzantine Empire that existed during the 13th through to the 15th century. The empire consisted of the Pontus, or far northeastern corner of Anatolia, and portions of southern Crimea . The Trapezuntine Empire was formed in 1204 with the help of Queen Tamar of Georgia ...
Unelaborated windows, usually arched above, are also common on Second Empire but are rare in Italianate examples. Occurrence: Second Empire was a dominant style for American houses constructed between 1860 and 1880, although the first examples were built in the 1850s and late examples were not uncommon in the 1880s. The style was most popular ...
W. Windsor Hotel (Montreal) Categories: Second Empire architecture. Architecture in Canada by period or style. Renaissance Revival architecture in Canada. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
