For the next 1,300 years the region shared the history of the Kingdom of the Franks, the Carolingian Empire and of the Holy Roman Empire.

Lotharingia was a medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire, comprising the Low Countries, the western Rhineland, the lands today on the border between France and Germany, and what is now western Switzerland.

On the continent of Europe, Anno Domini was introduced as the era of choice of the Carolingian Renaissance by Alcuin.

This is the Silk Road connecting the Chinese Empire and the Roman Empire.

Avatar and Empire

Embracing the Empire

The Accidental Empire

The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire of what is today western and northern Nigeria.

In 1804 6, the Holy Roman Empire was abolished, and the Austrian Empire was created.

On the breakup of the Roman Empire, Gaza became part of the Eastern Byzantine Empire.

During the Middle Ages, the descendants of the Salian Franks, the Carolingian dynasty, came to dominate the area and then extended their rule to a large part of Western Europe.

Russia s Illiberal Liberal Empire

Russia s Pipeline to Empire

This effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Empire against the German Empire.

By the 19th century, the empire began to decline when ethno nationalist uprisings occurred across the empire.

History In 1795 Poland was partitioned between the Kingdom of Prussia, Austrian Empire and the Russian Empire.

The Empire of Human Rights

After the founding of the German Empire in 1871, the Empire assumed the control of the customs union.

The fall and dissolution of the Empire was accelerated by French intervention in the Empire in September 1805.

First opened for the British Empire Exhibition in 1923, the stadium was originally known as the Empire Stadium.

A Habsburg Persian alliance was attempted and to a certain extent achieved in the 16th century between the Habsburg Empire and the Persian Empire in their common conflict against the Ottoman Empire.

Temporarily the east was again dominant as the Byzantine Empire formed from the eastern half of the Roman empire.

The State Bank of the Russian Empire () was the main bank of the Russian Empire from 1860 to 1917.

Aftermath After the defeat of the Persian Empire, a new threat, the Islamic Empire, would emerge in the region.

William Kelso says Virginia is where the British Empire began... this was the first colony in the British Empire.

So the empire can strike back.

The Muppet empire is now worldwide.

The Empire (Tries to) Strike Back

Zalessky (2000), Stalin's empire (biographical dictionary).

The Roman Empire has been defeated

There were only three Kaisers of the Austrian Empire, the successor empire to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation), and they have all belonged to the Habsburg dynasty.

The Treaty of Zuhab in 1639 between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire had resulted in peace for 85 years.

Unlike the Byzantine empire at 1096, the Byzantine empire now possessed very little land, save a few cities in the peloponese.

Stalin s empire needed no foreign classical orchestras.

The Seljuk Empire soon started to collapse.

(The First Total Census of Russian Empire.

The Treaty of Zurich was signed by the Austrian Empire, the French Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia on November 10, 1859.

In the 11th century, the First Bulgarian Empire collapsed under Rus' and Byzantine attacks, and became part of the Byzantine Empire until 1185.

Among the last of the empires in the 20th century were the Central African Empire, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Manchukuo, the German Empire, and Korea.

Early British Empire The British Empire expanded in this time to include colonies, protectorates, and Dominions throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia.

The Benin Empire was a pre colonial African empire, with its capital Benin City (located in what is now Edo State in Nigeria).

Financial empire building drove late twentieth century globalization.

Angkor is the capital of the Khmer Empire.

Thus, the 623 year old Ottoman Empire ended.

Mussolini established the Italian Empire in May 1936.