empire

geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a central authority or a central figure
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empire

Summary

empire is a monarchy[1]. empire draws 2,919 Wikipedia views per month (monarchy category, ranking #2 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • empire's instance of is recorded as monarchy[3].
  • empire's head of state is recorded as emperor[4].
  • empire is a type of realm[5].
  • empire is a type of sovereign state[6].
  • empire's Commons category is recorded as Empires[7].
  • empire's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Empires[8].
  • empire's described at URL is recorded as https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/#empire[9].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Political Theory[10].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[11].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[13].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[15].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • empire's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • empire's topic has template is recorded as Template:Empires[20].
  • empire's different from is recorded as imperium[21].
  • empire's different from is recorded as Empire[22].
  • empire's different from is recorded as Imperia[23].
  • empire's has list is recorded as list of empires[24].
  • empire's studied by is recorded as Imperial history[25].
  • empire's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].

Body

Definition and Type

empire's instance of is recorded as monarchy[3]. Recorded subclass of include realm[5] and sovereign state[6].

Influence

Things named for empire include Empire[27], a written work[28], written by Michael Hardt[29] and Mellat Park[30], an urban park[31], in Iran[32].

Why It Matters

empire draws 2,919 Wikipedia views per month (monarchy category, ranking #2 of 9).[2] empire has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] empire is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for empire include Empire[27], a written work[28], written by Michael Hardt[29] and Mellat Park[30], an urban park[31], in Iran[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Head of state emperor
    Different from imperium, Empire, Imperia
    Topic has template Template:Empires
    Subclass of realm, sovereign state
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 23228, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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