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3 days ago · v. t. e. An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". [1] The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. [2]
- Empire (Disambiguation)
Buildings. Empire (skyscraper), formerly the Imperia Tower,...
- List of Empires
Benin Empire: 1440: 1897: 457 Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great...
- Metropole
Roman Italy, the metropole of the Roman Empire. Roman...
- Empire (Disambiguation)
4 days ago · Contents. hide. (Top) Largest empires by land area. Empires at their greatest extent. Timeline of largest empires to date. Timeline of largest empires at the time. Largest empires by share of world population. See also.
3 days ago · The Mauryan Empire was an empire in South Asia, founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 322 BCE and lasting until 185 BCE. It was centralized through the conquest of the Indo - Gangetic Plain, with its capital in Pataliputra (modern Patna ).
3 days ago · The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history. Originating in present-day Mongolia in East Asia, the Mongol Empire at its height stretched from the Sea of Japan to parts of Eastern Europe, extending northward into parts of the Arctic; eastward and southward into parts of the Indian subcontinent, attempted invasions of Southeast Asia, and ...
5 days ago · Mongolia. Mongolia [b] is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 square miles), with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country ...
1 day ago · Left-hand traffic ( LHT) and right-hand traffic ( RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of the road, respectively. They are fundamental to traffic flow, and are sometimes called the rule of the road. [1] The terms right- and left-hand drive refer to the position of the driver and the ...
1 day ago · The Chinese Empire, also known as Imperial China or the Empire of China, [a] is a term referring to the domain ruled by the Emperor of China. It was also known as the Celestial Empire in reference to the status of the Emperor of China as the Son of Heaven in the Sinosphere. For most of its history, China was organized into various dynasties ...
