Any of the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires, which all had considerable military success using then-innovative firearms, especially cannon and small arms.

plural of gunpowder empire

A Persianate empire centered in North India from 1526 to 1857. Succeeded by the British East India Company.

plural of empire waist

(historical) Japan from the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (1890) until the enactment of the post-WWII Constitution of Japan (1947). Unofficially used for Japan from the end of the shogunate (1868) to the end of the World War II (1945).

The pre-Columbian empire spreading over many parts of western South America. It was controlled by the Incas, and had its capital as Cuzco.

(fashion) A style of women's clothing characterised by a fitted bodice that ended just below the bust

(history) Synonym of Empire of Japan

(historical) A Greek-Macedonian empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great and ruled by the Seleucid dynasty (312–63 BCE).

(historical) An ancient empire of Western Asia founded as a kingdom by Arsaces I with his 3rd-century-BCE conquest of Parthia (only recently a satrapy of the Seleucid Empire) and subsequently greatly expanded by Mithridates I.