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| name = Empires
| state = {{{state|{{{1|<includeonly>collapsed</includeonly>}}}}}}
| title = [[Empire]]s
| listclass = hlist
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| group1 = [[Ancient history|Ancient]]<br />([[Colonies in antiquity|Colonies]])
| list1 =
* [[Akkadian Empire|Akkadian]]
* [[Third Dynasty of Ur|Neo-Sumerian]]
*[[Assyria|Assyrian]]
**[[Middle Assyrian Empire|Middle Assyrian]]
** [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Neo-Assyrian]]
*[[Babylonia|Babylonian]]
** [[Old Babylonian Empire|Old Babylonian]]
** [[Kassites|Kassite]]
** [[Neo-Babylonian Empire|Neo-Babylonian]]
* [[Chinese Empire|Chinese]]
** [[Qin dynasty|Qin]]
** [[Han dynasty|Han]]
** [[Jin dynasty (266–420)|Jin]]
* [[Dʿmt]]
* [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]]
** [[Old Kingdom of Egypt|Old Kingdom]]
** [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]]
** [[New Kingdom of Egypt|New Kingdom]]
* [[Goguryeo]]
* [[Harsha]]
* [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic]]
** [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)#Empire|Macedonian]]
** [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucid]]
** [[Ptolemaic Kingdom|Ptolemaic]]
** [[Greco-Bactrian Kingdom|Bactrian]]
** [[Indo-Greek Kingdom|Indo-Greek]]
* [[Hittites|Hittite]]
* [[History of the Huns|Hunnic]]
** [[Hephthalites|White]]
** [[Xiongnu]]
* [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]]
** [[Median kingdom|Median]]
** [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid]]
** [[Parthian Empire|Parthian]]
** [[Sasanian Empire|Sasanian]]
* [[Kingdom of Kush|Kush]]
* [[Kushan Empire|Kushan]]
* [[Magadha]]
** [[Haryanka dynasty|Haryanka]]
** [[Shaishunaga dynasty|Shaishunaga]]
** [[Nanda Empire|Nanda]]
** [[Maurya Empire|Maurya]]
** [[Shunga Empire|Shunga]]
** [[Gupta Empire|Gupta]]
* [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]]
** [[Ancient Carthage|Carthaginian]]
* [[Roman Empire|Roman]]
** [[Western Roman Empire|Western]]
** [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern]]
* [[Satavahana dynasty|Satavahana]]
* [[Xianbei]]
** [[Rouran Khaganate|Rouran]]

| group2 = [[Post-classical history|Post-classical]]
| list2 =
* [[Crown of Aragon|Aragonese]]
* [[Angevin Empire|Angevin]]
* [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubid]]
* [[Aztec Empire|Aztec]]
* [[Kingdom of Benin|Benin]]
* [[Kanem–Bornu Empire#Shift of the Sayfuwa court from Kanem to Bornu|Bornu]]
* [[Bruneian Sultanate (1368–1888)|Bruneian]]
* Bulgarian
** [[First Bulgarian Empire|First]]
** [[Second Bulgarian Empire|Second]]
* [[History of Burma|Burmese]]
** [[Pagan Kingdom|First]]
* [[Calakmul]]
* [[Caliphate]]
** [[Rashidun Caliphate|Rashidun]]
** [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad]]
** [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]]
** [[Fatimid Caliphate|Fatimid]]
* [[Chalukya dynasty|Chalukya]]
** [[Western Chalukya Empire|Western]]
** [[Eastern Chalukyas|Eastern]]
* [[Chinese Empire|Chinese]]
** [[Sui dynasty|Sui]]
** [[Tang dynasty|Tang]]
** [[Liao dynasty|Liao]]
** [[Song dynasty|Song]]
** [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jīn]]
** [[Yuan dynasty|Yuan]]
* [[Chola Empire|Chola]]
* [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopian]]
**[[Kingdom of Aksum|Aksum]]
** [[Zagwe dynasty|Zagwe]]
** [[Ethiopian Empire|Solomonic]]
* [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]]
* [[Kingdom of Georgia|Georgian]]
* [[Garabito Empire|Huetar]]
* [[Inca Empire|Inca]]
* [[Tripartite Struggle|Kannauj]]
** [[Pala Empire|Pala]]
** [[Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty|Gurjara-Pratihara]]
** [[Rashtrakuta Empire|Rashtrakuta]]
* [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]]
** [[Tahirid dynasty|Tahirid]]
** [[Saffarid dynasty|Saffarid]]
** [[Samanid Empire|Samanid]]
** [[Buyid dynasty|Buyid]]
* [[History of Japan|Japanese]]
** [[Yamato period|Yamato]]
** [[Kamakura shogunate|Kamakura]]
** [[Ashikaga shogunate|Muromachi]]
** [[Tokugawa shogunate|Edo]]
* [[Kanem–Bornu Empire|Kanem]]
* [[Khmer Empire|Khmer]]
* [[Latin Empire|Latin]]
* [[Majapahit]]
* [[Mali Empire|Mali]]
* [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]]
** [[Yuan dynasty|Yuan]]
** [[Golden Horde]]
** [[Chagatai Khanate]]
** [[Ilkhanate]]
* [[History of Morocco|Moroccan]]
** [[Idrisid dynasty|Idrisid]]
** [[Almoravid dynasty|Almoravid]]
** [[Almohad Caliphate|Almohad]]
* [[Norgesveldet|Norwegian]]
* [[North Sea Empire|North Sea]]
* [[Oyo Empire|Oyo]]
* [[Hellenization in the Byzantine Empire|Hellenic]] [[Roman Empire|Roman]]
** [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]]
** [[Empire of Nicaea|Nicaea]]
** [[Empire of Thessalonica|Thessalonica]]
** [[Empire of Trebizond|Trebizond]]
** [[Despotate of Epirus|Epirus]]
** [[Despotate of the Morea|Morea]]
* [[Romano-Germanic culture|Romano-Germanic]]
** [[Carolingian Empire|Carolingian]]
** [[Holy Roman Empire|Holy Roman]]
* [[Serbian Empire|Serbian]]
* [[Singhasari]]
* [[Songhai Empire|Songhai]]
* [[Srivijaya]]
* [[Tibetan Empire|Tibetan]]
* [[Tikal]]
* [[Tiwanaku Empire|Tiwanaku]]
* [[Toltec Empire|Toltec]]
* [[Turco-Persian tradition|Turco-Persian]]
** [[Ghaznavids|Ghaznavid]]
** [[Seljuk Empire|Great Seljuk]]
** [[Khwarazmian Empire|Khwarezmian]]
** [[Timurid Empire|Timurid]]
* [[Göktürks|Turkic]]
** [[First Turkic Khaganate|First]]
** [[Western Turkic Khaganate|Western]]
** [[Eastern Turkic Khaganate|Eastern]]
** [[Second Turkic Khaganate|Second]]
** [[Uyghur Khaganate|Uighur]]
** [[Kyrgyz Khaganate|Kyrgyz]]
* [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]]
* [[Đại Việt|Vietnamese]]
** [[Đinh dynasty|Dinh]]
** [[Early Lê dynasty|Early Le]]
** [[Lý dynasty|Ly]]
** [[Trần dynasty|Tran]]
** [[Hồ dynasty|Ho]]
** [[Later Trần dynasty|Later Tran]]
** [[Lê dynasty|Later Le]]
* [[Vijayanagara Empire|Vijayanagara]]
* [[Ghana Empire|Wagadou]]
* [[Wari Empire|Wari]]

| group3 = [[Modern era|Modern]]
| list3 =
* [[Durrani Empire|Afghan]]
* [[Ashanti Empire|Ashanti]]
* [[Austrian Empire|Austrian]]
* [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]]
* [[Empire of Brazil|Brazilian]]
* Burmese
** [[First Toungoo Empire|Second]]
** [[Konbaung dynasty|Third]]
* [[Central African Empire|Central African]]
* [[Chinese Empire|Chinese]]
** [[Ming dynasty|Ming]]
** [[Qing dynasty|Qing]]
** [[Empire of China (1915–1916)|China]]
** [[Manchukuo]]
** [[Chinese imperialism|Contemporary]]
* [[Ethiopian Empire|Ethiopian]]
* [[History of Haiti|Haitian]]
** [[First Empire of Haiti|First]]
** [[Second Empire of Haiti|Second]]
* [[History of France|French]]
** [[First French Empire|First]]
** [[Second French Empire|Second]]
* [[History of Germany|German]]
** [[German Empire]]
** [[Nazi Germany]]
* [[British Raj|Indian]]
* [[Indo-Persian culture|Indo-Persian]]
** [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]]
** [[Sikh Empire|Sikh]]
* [[Iranian peoples|Iranian]]
** [[Safavid Iran|Safavid]]
** [[Afsharid Iran|Afsharid]]
** [[Zand dynasty|Zand]]
** [[Qajar Iran|Qajar]]
** [[Pahlavi dynasty|Pahlavi]]
* [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]]
* [[Korean Empire|Korean]]
* [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]]
* [[History of Mexico|Mexican]]
** [[First Mexican Empire|First]]
** [[Second Mexican Empire|Second]]
* [[Northern Yuan|Mongol]]
** [[Oirat Confederation|Oirat]]
** [[Khoshut Khanate|Khoshut]]
** [[Dzungar Khanate|Dzungar]]
** [[Kalmyk Khanate|Kalmyk]]
** [[Bogd Khanate of Mongolia|Bogd]]
* [[History of Morocco|Moroccan]]
** [[Saadi Sultanate|Saadi]]
** [[Alawi Sultanate|'Alawi]]
* [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]]
* [[History of Russia|Russian]]
** [[Tsardom of Russia|Tsarist]]
** [[Russian Empire|Imperial]]
** [[Russian imperialism#Contemporary Russian imperialism|Contemporary]]
* [[Sokoto Caliphate|Sokoto]]
* [[History of Somalia|Somali]]
** [[Isaaq Sultanate|Isaaq]]
* [[Tuʻi Tonga Empire|Tongan]]
* [[History of Vietnam|Vietnamese]]
** [[Mạc dynasty|Mac]]
** [[Revival Lê dynasty|Revival Le]]
** [[Tây Sơn dynasty|Tay son]]
** [[Nguyễn dynasty|Dainam]]
** [[Empire of Vietnam|Vietnam]]

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| group1      = [[Colonial empire|Colonial]]
| list1       =

* [[American imperialism|American]]
* [[Belgian colonial empire|Belgian]]
* [[British Empire|British]]
** [[English overseas possessions|English]]
** [[Scottish colonization of the Americas|Scottish]]
* [[Chinese Empire|Chinese]]
* [[Danish overseas colonies|Danish]]
* [[Dutch colonial empire|Dutch]]
* [[French colonial empire|French]]
* [[German colonial empire|German]]
* [[Italian Empire|Italian]]
* [[Japanese colonial empire|Japanese]]
* [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]]
* [[Omani Empire|Omani]]
* [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian]]
** [[Curonian colonisation|Couronian]]
* [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]]
* [[Russian Empire|Russian]]
* [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]]
* [[Swedish overseas colonies|Swedish]]

}}

| group5 = Lists
| list5 =
* [[List of empires|Empires]]
** [[List of largest empires|largest]]
* [[List of ancient great powers|Ancient great powers]]
* [[List of medieval great powers|Medieval great powers]]
* [[List of modern great powers|Modern great powers]]
* [[History of colonialism|European colonialism]]
* [[African empires]]

| group6 = Miscellaneous
| list6 =
* "Empire" as a description of foreign policy
** [[American imperialism|American Empire]]
** [[Soviet empire]]

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