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  2. Template:List of great powers by date - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide 1815 1878 1900 1919 1939 1945 c. 2000 ... Template: List of great powers by date.

  3. European balance of power - Wikipedia

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    The European balance of power is a tenet in international relations that no single power should be allowed to achieve hegemony over a substantial part of Europe. During much of the Modern Age, the balance was achieved by having a small number of ever-changing alliances contending for power, [1] which culminated in the World Wars of the early 20th century.

  4. History of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The western provinces soon were to be dominated by three great powers: first, the Franks (Merovingian dynasty) in Francia 481–843 AD, which covered much of present France and Germany; second, the Visigothic kingdom 418–711 AD in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain); and third, the Ostrogothic kingdom 493–553 AD in Italy and parts of the ...

  5. Timeline of European imperialism - Wikipedia

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    European International Relations, 1648–1815 (2002) excerpt and text search; Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2011), Very wide-ranging coverage from Rome to the 1980s; 511pp; Dodge, Ernest S. Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia (1976) Furber, Holden.

  6. List of ancient great powers - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egypt reached the zenith of its power during the New Kingdom (1570–1070 BC) under great pharaohs. Ancient Egypt was a great power to be contended with by both the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa. The empire expanded far south into Nubia and held wide territories across the ancient Near East.

  7. Concert of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Prince Metternich by Thomas Lawrence. Prince Metternich, Austrian chancellor and foreign minister, as well as an influential leader in the Concert of Europe. The Concert of Europe describes the geopolitical order in Europe from 1814 to 1914, during which the great powers tended to act in concert to avoid wars and revolutions and generally maintain the territorial and political ...

  8. Monarchies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Early modern Europe was dominated by the Wars of Religion, notably the Thirty Years' War, during which the major European monarchies developed into centralised great powers sustained by their colonial empires. The main European monarchical powers in the early modern period were: [citation needed] the Kingdom of France with its colonial empire

  9. List of great powers - Wikipedia

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    List of ancient great powers, a list of great powers before the year 500 AD; List of medieval great powers, a list of great powers after the year 400 to 1500; List of modern great powers, a list of great powers since the year 1500 to the present