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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 ...
Empire Start year End year Duration (years) Abbasid Caliphate: 750: 1517: 767 Aceh Sultanate: 1496: 1903: 407 Achaemenid Empire: 550 BC: 330 BC: 220 Afsharid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire was the first of the Persian Empires to become a world empire. At the height of its power, the Empire spanned over three continents, namely Europe , Asia , and Africa , and was the most powerful empire of its time.
List of Persian monarchs: Seleucid Empire: 312 BC–63 BC Basileus Megas ("Great King") List of Seleucid rulers: Parthian Empire: 247 BC–224 AD Shahanshah ("King of Kings") List of Persian monarchs: Sasanian Empire: 224–651 Buyid Empire: 978–1062 Ilkhanate: 1295–1388 Padishah ("Master King") Timurid Empire: 1370–1507 Qara Qoyunlu ...
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.
At its height, it controlled 25% of the world’s landmass — geographically, the largest empire ever — and 412 million subjects or 23% of the world’s population.
The first (light blue) and second (dark blue) French colonial empires France has been one of the leading powers in Europe and the world, since the breakup of the Carolingian Empire and the emergence of West Francia, its predecessor state, although its power was only truly consolidated from 1214 onwards with its victory in the Anglo-French War.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.