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provinces of the Ottoman Empire, which heavily, and adversely, shaped the way they developed. After Ottoman rule collapsed, the Middle East was absorbed into...

The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom...

changes, by the fifth century AD the Western Roman Empire, as the West was called after it split from the East, had declined economically and militarily, and...

The German colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies and territories of Imperial Germany. Unified in the early 1870s, the chancellor...

for land, markets or security became justifications for noble rhetoric about prosperity, liberty and security. William Appleman Williams, "Empire as a...

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji...

Morocco from 1955 to 1956. Belgium should become the capital of the Belgian Empire, which, with the help of God, will consist of Borneo, islands in the Pacific...

on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island, the Dutch Empire in the Dutch East Indies, Thailand and on the British colonies in Borneo, Malaya...

a country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north...

The economy in the Indian Subcontinent during the Mughal Empire era performed just as it did in ancient times, though now it would face the stress of extensive...

tip of Europe, in the Iberian Peninsula. It borders with Spain by land (North and East) and with the Atlantic Ocean by sea (West and South). If maps were...

The Vijayanagara Empire, (also called Karnata Empire, and the Kingdom of Bisnegar by the Portuguese) was based in the Deccan Plateau region in South India...

hanging tags upon her as the Land of the Thug, the Land of the Plague, the Land of Famine, the Land of Giant Illusions, the Land of Stupendous Mountains,...

patches of watered land they may have been rather narrowly ‘oasis-minded’. Luxury appealed to them. Cook, J. M. The Persian empire 1983. page 230. Also...

Amsterdam. New York is popularly known as the "Big Apple", "Gotham City", "Empire City", "Fun City", "The Naked City", and the "City That Never Sleeps". Manhattan...

the "Soft Power" Strategy in the Western Outlying Regions of the Russian Empire in the Second Half of the 19th – early 20th Centuries", Scientific Thought...

Louisiana. The region was controlled by the French Colonial Empire until the British Empire annexed it during the Seven Years’ War, and the United States...

the British Empire at sea. Hitler, unable to rival the British on the oceans, saw eastern Europe as ripe for a new land empire. The East was not quite...

all the land in the kingdom. And here you can draw no distinction between agricultural land and other land, for the simple reason that East and West...

Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French...