List of empiresThis is a navigational list of empires.EmpiresEmpireStart yearEnd yearDuration Achaemenid EmpireAfsharid IranAkkadian Empire180Akwamu238United States of America 1776present249Angevin Empire88Aq Qoyunlu1467150841Armenian Empire of Tigranes the Great34Asante Empire232Aulikara Empire22Austria-Hungary51Austrian Empire63Avar Khaganate567822255Ayutthaya Kingdom416Aztec Empire196Old Babylonian Empire299Neo-Babylonian Empire87Bamana Empire149Belgian colonial empire55Kingdom of Benin717Empire of Brazil67Britannic Empire10British Empire1583414British Raj 89Sultanate of Brunei (1368–1888)520Old Great Bulgaria36First Bulgarian Empire337Second Bulgarian Empire211Byzantine Empire3951058Carolingian Empire80088888Carthaginian EmpireCentral African Empire197619793Chenla252Chimor570People's Republic of China1949present76Chola Empire431Athenian Empire454 BC404 BC50Danish colonial empireDurrani Empire95Dutch colonial empire380Dzungar Khanate16341758124Empire of Charles V37New Kingdom of Egypt473Elamite Empire110Ethiopian Empire704First French Empire11Second French Empire18French colonial empire1814280French colonial empire18301980150Funan500Gallic Empire14Gaza Empire71German colonial empire36German Empire48Confederate German Realm (1848–1849)1Ghana Empire405Ghaznavid Empire209Goguryeo705Goryeo474Golden Horde262Grand Duchy of Lithuania559Empire of Great Fulo264Gupta Empire230Habsburg monarchy636First Empire of Haiti2Second Empire of Haiti10Han dynasty202 BC220 AD422Hephthalite Empire120Hittite Empire422Holy Roman Empire800/9621006/844Hoysala Kingdom317Hunnic Empire99Iberian Union60Ilkhanate79Inca Empire134Italian Empire196078Empire of Japan79Jin dynasty (266–420)154Jin dynasty (1115–1234)11151234119Jolof Empire199Kaabu330Kanem–Bornu Empire18931193Khmer Empire629Khwarazmian Empire154Kingdom of Georgia10081490482Kong Empire188Korean Empire13Kushan Empire315Kingdom of Kush1130Latin Empire57Liao dynasty9071125218Macedonia660Majapahit234Mali Empire435Maratha Confederacy144Massina Empire42Maurya Empire136Median Empire 128First Mexican Empire2Second Mexican Empire3Middle Assyrian Empire307Ming dynasty276Mongol Empire162Great Moravia74Mughal Empire331Nanda Empire24Nazi Germany12Kingdom of Nepal240Neo-Assyrian Empire302Neo-Sumerian Empire108North Sea Empire29Empire of Nicaea57Odrysian kingdom450Omani Empire158Ostrogothic Kingdom60Ottoman Empire623Oyo Empire596Pagan kingdom438Pala Empire411Palmyrene Empire3Parthian Empire471Kingdom of Pontus342Portuguese EmpirePtolemaic Kingdom275Purépecha Empire13001530230Qara Khitai94Qing dynasty268Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932)150Roman Empire422Rozvi Empire206Russian Empire196Safavid Iran235Samo's Empire27Sasanian Empire427Samanid Empire180Seleucid Empire249Seljuk Empire157Serbian Empire25Shu Han42Sikh Empire50Singhasari1222129270Song dynasty319Songhai Empire127Soviet Union 1922199168Spanish Empire496Shunga Empire112Sur Empire154016Swedish Empire286Tang dynasty618907289Tây Sơn dynasty24Empire of Thessalonica18Tibetan Empire87Timurid Empire137Empire of Trebizond257Toltec Empire626Tuʻi Tonga Empire915Tukulor Empire41First Turkic Khaganate193Empire of VietnamMarch 1945August 19450 Vijayanagara Empire310Wari Empire500Wassoulou Empire20Western Chalukya Empire209Western Roman Empire81Yuan dynasty12601368108Zhou dynasty790