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The home and colonial populations of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population figures are for some purposes less relevant for comparison between different empires than their respective shares of the world population at the time ...
In layman and academic parlance, the name of a dynasty is often affixed before the common name of a state in reference to a state under the rule of a particular dynasty. For example, whereas the official name of the realm ruled by the Qajar dynasty was the "Sublime State of Iran", the domain is commonly known as " Qajar Iran ".
Konbaung Dynasty: 1752: 1885: 133 Kong Empire: 1710: 1898: 188 Korean Empire: 1897: 1910: 13 Kushan Empire: 30: 375: 345 Kingdom of Kush: 1077 BC: 350: 1427 Kyrgyz Khaganate: 539: 1207: 668 Latin Empire: 1204: 1261: 57 Lê Dynasty: 1428: 1789: 361 Liao Dynasty: 907: 1125: 218 Lodi Sultanate: 1451: 1526: 75 Lavo Kingdom: 468: 1388: 920 Macedonia ...
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history. [5] 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; [6] eastward and southward into parts of the Indian subcontinent, mounted invasions of Southeast Asia, and ...
'The Empire' [18] or 'The Kingdom' [19]), was an Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC. Based in modern-day Iran, it was the largest empire by that point in history, spanning a total of 5.5 million square kilometres (2.1 million
Hồng Bàng dynasty (2879–258 BC) Âu Lạc (257–179 BC) Nanyue (204–111 BC) Early Lý dynasty (AD 544–602) Ngô dynasty (AD 939–965) Đinh dynasty (AD 968–980) Early Lê dynasty (AD 980–1009) Lý dynasty (AD 1009–1225) Trần dynasty (AD 1225–1400) Hồ dynasty (AD 1400–1407) Later Trần dynasty (AD 1407–1413)
The expansion and defense of the empire was made possible by what appears to have been one of the largest armies in the world during the Iron Age. [128] According to Megasthenes, the empire wielded a military of 600,000 infantry, 30,000 cavalry, 8,000 chariots and 9,000 war elephants besides followers and attendants. [129]
The Qing dynasty in 1911. The Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was the largest political entity ever to center itself on China as known today. Succeeding the Ming dynasty, the Qing dynasty more than doubled the geographical extent of the Ming dynasty, which it displayed in 1644, and also tripled the Ming population, reaching a size of about half a billion people in its last years.