Europe
23 empires
Roman Empire
At its peak controlled the entire Mediterranean, called Mare Nostrum, Our Sea. Built 400,000 km of r...
British Empire
The largest empire in history, covering a quarter of Earths land. The sun never set on it. Controlle...
Alexander the Greats Empire
Conquered the known world by age 30, from Greece to India. Never lost a battle in 15 years of campai...
Spanish Empire
The first global empire, spanning Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Conquered the Aztec and In...
French Colonial Empire
The second largest colonial empire after Britain. Controlled much of West and North Africa, Southeas...
Russian Empire
The third largest empire in history, spanning 11 time zones. Peter the Great modernized Russia by fo...
Soviet Union
The largest communist state in history. Won WWII at a cost of 27 million lives. Launched Sputnik and...
Portuguese Empire
The first global colonial empire. Vasco da Gama reached India by sea in 1498. Brazil was its largest...
Dutch Empire
The Dutch East India Company was the first multinational corporation and the first to issue stock. C...
Carolingian Empire
Charlemagne was crowned Roman Emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day 800. Promoted education and prese...
Holy Roman Empire
Voltaire joked it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. A patchwork of hundreds of German stat...
Habsburg Empire
Ruled through strategic marriages, their motto was Let others wage war, you, happy Austria, marry. C...
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
The largest and most populous country in Europe at its peak. Had a unique elective monarchy where no...
Golden Horde
The northwestern khanate of the Mongol Empire, ruling the steppe from the Danube to Siberia. Russian...
First French Empire
The empire of Napoleon I, proclaimed in 1804. His victories at Austerlitz, Jena, and Wagram made Fra...
Second French Empire
The regime of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, who became emperor after a coup. Baron...
German Empire
Proclaimed at Versailles in 1871 after Prussia defeated France, uniting the German states under the ...
Angevin Empire
A modern name for the lands of the Plantagenet kings stretching from the Scottish border to the Pyre...
Kievan Rus
A federation of East Slavic principalities ruled by the Rurikid dynasty from Kyiv. Vladimir the Grea...
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Once among the largest states in Europe, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. It was the las...
First Bulgarian Empire
A medieval state formed when the Bulgars under Khan Asparukh settled south of the Danube. Under Bori...
Serbian Empire
A short lived medieval empire proclaimed by Stefan Dusan, who was crowned Emperor of the Serbs and G...
Hunnic Empire
A nomadic empire whose arrival in Europe pushed Gothic peoples into the Roman Empire. Under Attila t...