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• Iran
  ...ng of names|year=1984|journal=[[British Society for Middle Eastern Studies|British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Bulletin]] |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=12 ...h century, a [[Russo-Persian Wars|series of conflicts]] with the [[Russian Empire]] led to significant territorial losses.{{sfn|Fisher|Avery|Hambly|Melville|
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• Istanbul
  ...tember 2009 | page=5| title = Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire | publisher = Princeton University Press | isbn = 978-0-691-14369-9 | oclc ...nder the Palaiologos dynasty|late Byzantine]] (1261–1453), and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] (1453–1922) empires.{{sfn|Çelik|1993|p=xv}} The city played a
  222 KB (31,305 words) - 10:50, 25 September 2022
• Pakistan
  ...n=Leiden, Netherlands |isbn=90-04-02104-3}}</ref> and most recently, the [[British Raj]] from 1858 to 1947. ...ially a [[Dominion of Pakistan|Dominion]] of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]], Pakistan officially drafted [[Constitution of Pakistan|its
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• Italian
  ...url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItsTDAAAQBAJ&q=italy+metropole+roman+empire&pg=PA45 |title=Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Eco ...til the 19th century, partially as a result of a succession of [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]], [[History of Islam in southern Italy|Arab]], [[Norman conquest
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• France
  ...nturies, France built the [[French colonial empire|second largest colonial empire]] of the time, including large portions of [[North Africa|North]], [[West A ...xt several centuries and the Gauls would remain a threat in [[Italy (Roman Empire)|Italia]].
  219 KB (31,540 words) - 14:49, 26 January 2021
• Austria
  ...er]] and the dominant member of the [[German Confederation]]. The Austrian Empire's defeat in the [[Austro-Prussian War]] of 1866 lead to the end of the Conf ...ed war on [[Serbia]], which ultimately escalated into [[World War I]]. The Empire's defeat and subsequent collapse led to the proclamation of the [[Republic
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• Expansion of the Mauryan Empire
  ==Empire Expansion== ===Conquest of the Nanda Empire===
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• Iranian peoples
  ...chapter=The Early History of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid Empire to the Death of Cambyses |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nND ...tak inscription|inscription]] of [[Kanishka]] (the founder of the [[Kushan Empire]]) at Rabatak, which was discovered in 1993 in an unexcavated site in the A
  107 KB (14,973 words) - 10:47, 25 September 2022
• Singapore
  ...anese occupation of Singapore|occupied by Japan]] in 1942, and returned to British control as a separate [[Colony of Singapore|Crown colony]] following [[Surr ...emasek]], was a trading port under the influence of both the [[Majapahit]] Empire and the [[Ayutthaya Kingdom|Siamese]] kingdoms,{{sfn|Miksic|2013|pp=[https:
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• Morocco
  ...th [[Portuguese Empire|Portugal]] seizing some territory and the [[Ottoman Empire]] encroaching from the east. The [[Marinid Sultanate|Marinid]] and [[Saadi ...French as {{Lang|fr|l'Empire chérifien}} and in English as the 'Sharifian Empire'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=ملين |first=نبيل |url=http://worldcat.org/o
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• Madhya Pradesh
  ...on was divided into several [[princely states]] under the [[British Empire|British]] and incorporated into [[Central Provinces and Berar]] and the [[Central I ...bringing the region under firmer control. After the decline of the Maurya empire, the region was contested among the [[Saka]]s, the [[Kushana]]s, the [[Sata
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• Shaun Paul McGrath
  ...ica. McGrath plays the lead antagonist a ruthless camp commander alongside British actor, Philip Glenister. (Life on Mars) Carthago has been selected for Cann ...Cake (TBC 2023), the latter of which saw him working in Jamaica alongside British, American, and local crew on a production authored by Oprah Winfrey’s boo
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• Politics
  ...ulation belonged to many ethnic groups, and they spoke many languages. The empire was dominated by one ethnic group, and their language was usually the langu ...the [[Ottoman Empire]] after the [[First World War]], while the [[Russian Empire]] became the [[Soviet Union]] after the [[Russian Civil War]]. [[Decoloniza
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• Okara
  ...[[Indo-Greek kingdom]], [[Kushan Empire]], [[Gupta Empire]], [[Hephthalite Empire|White Huns]], [[Kushano-Hephthalites]] and the [[Turk Shahi|Turk]] and [[Hi ...northern [[Punjab region]]. The [[Delhi Sultanate]] and later the [[Mughal Empire]] ruled this region. The Punjab region became predominantly [[Muslim]] due
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• Milan
  ...e [[late antiquity]], when it served as the capital of the [[Western Roman Empire]], while from the 12th century until the 16th century, Milan was one of the ...the Roman Emperor [[Diocletian]] moved the capital of the [[Western Roman Empire]] from Rome to Mediolanum.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://milano.corriere.it/f
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• Chattogram
  ...ruary 2022|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> The Mughal Empire expelled the Portuguese and Arakanese in 1666. ...and industrialize during the 1940s, particularly after the [[Partition of British India]]. The city was the historic terminus of the [[Assam Bengal Railway]]
  106 KB (14,353 words) - 12:00, 25 February 2024
• Patrick Mercer
  | honorific-suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]] | nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
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• River Thames
  ..., 'melt'.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kitson |first=Peter R |year=1996 |title=British and European River Names' |journal=Transactions of the Philological Society The marks of human activity, in some cases dating back to [[British Iron Age|Pre-Roman Britain]], are visible at various points along the river
  122 KB (18,002 words) - 22:00, 16 September 2022
• Gwalior
  ...top: [[Gwalior Fort]] and the city skyline, [[Jai Vilas Mahal]] Interior, British era monument, Sanatan Dharam Mandir, [[Jai Vilas Mahal|Jai Vilas Palace]], ...people|Maratha]] in 1754, and the [[Scindia|Scindia dynasty]] of [[Maratha Empire]] in the 18th century.<ref name="lonelyplanet.com">{{cite web|url=http://ww
  79 KB (11,351 words) - 14:04, 26 February 2023
• Tanzania
  ...= Independence {{nobold|from the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[Omani Empire]]}} ...he-world-factbook/countries/tanzania/}}</ref> The countries had joined the British [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] in 1961 and Tanzania is still a me
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