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  Encyclopedia: Empire
For many centuries, the term "Empire" in the West applied exclusively to states which considered themselves to be successors to the Roman Empire, such as the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, or, later, the Russian Empire ruled from the "Third Rome" (Moscow).
The Byzantine Empire was reconstructed and the Trebizondine fell to the Ottomans.
The Western Empire was inherited by the Austrian Empire, later known as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which ceased to exist in 1918.
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An empire is a large, multi-ethnic state, whose political structure is held together by coercion.
Empires have been traditionally ruled by powerful monarchies under the leadership of a hereditary (or in some cases, self-appointed) emperor.
For example, the former Soviet Union fits many of the criteria of an empire, but nevertheless did not claim to be one, nor was it ruled by a traditional hereditary "emperor" (see Soviet Empire).
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 list of extinct states - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
In 1918, the empire was split into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929).
Central African Empire - temporary phase (1977 - 1979) in the existence of the Central African Republic.
Eastern Rumelia - province of the Ottoman Empire unified with Bulgaria in 1885
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 Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
An empire comprises a region or a set of regions ruled by an emperor or, by extension, any large, multi-ethnic state which maintains its political structure by coercion.
For many centuries, the term "Empire" applied exclusively to states which considered themselves to be successors to the Roman Empire, such as the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, or the Russian Empire.
Many ancient empires maintained control of their subject peoples by controlling the supply of a vital resource, usually water; historians refer to such régimes as "hydraulic empires." The introduction of a common religion also often strengthened empires, as occurred (pace Edward Gibbon) with the adoption of Christianity under Constantine I of the Roman Empire.
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 Empire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Also, one can compare physical empires with potentially more abstract or less formally structured hegemonies, which add cultural influences to their power repertory within their spheres of influence, and also compare empires with (A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world) superpowers.
In some cases synonyms of empire such as (A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)) tsardom, (The domain ruled by a king or queen) realm or (The German state) reich occur.
The Mongol Empire was governed by (Click link for more info and facts about kurultai) kurultai, and there was (A civil right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution) freedom of religion, tax exemption and extensive trade routes that were nurtured by the Khan.
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 ipedia.com: Magadhan Empire Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Magadhan Empire was a civilization based on the unification of several previous states in what is now northern India.
The magadhan empire were first founderrs of the art of wikipedithryusnabs.
Without them our moderen society would be wikipedithryusnabsless.
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