Recognized great powers came about first in Europe during the post-Napoleonic era. The formalization of the division between small powers and great powers came...

Inca Empire (1500) Grand Duchy of Moscow (1500) Historic recurrence List of ancient great powers List of modern great powers Fueter, Eduard (1922). World...

great powers, a list of great powers before the year 500 AD List of medieval great powers, a list of great powers after the year 400 to 1500 List of modern...

into three types of states: grandissime (great powers), mezano (middle powers), and piccioli (small powers). According to Botero, a mezano or middle...

(Western Europe) Failed state G8 List of modern great powers List of medieval great powers List of ancient great powers Power (international relations) Precedence...

International relations (1814–1919) List of ancient great powers List of largest empires List of medieval great powers Precedence among European monarchies...

civilization Imperialism List of ancient great powers List of largest empires List of medieval great powers List of modern great powers Middle Eastern empires Nomadic...

List of Iron Age states (c. 1200–600 BC) List of Classical Age states (c. 600 BC–200 AD) List of former sovereign states List of ancient great powers...

states during the Middle Ages List of former sovereign states List of ancient great powers "State definiation". 2014. Collins Dictionary. Retrieved 5 June...

List of states in the 1st century BC List of states in the 1st century List of states in the 2nd century List of ancient great powers "Definition of State...

medieval great powers List of modern great powers List of largest empires Lists of state leaders by year Ancient Africa Ancient Americas History of Central...

defeated the old powers of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC. Philip II's son Alexander the Great, leading a federation of Greek states...

Ireland (Dublin). The ancient universities in Great Britain and Ireland are amongst the oldest extant universities in the world. The ancient universities in...

withdrawal of the Ostend Company's charter, the Great Powers accepted the Pragmatic Sanction. The suspension also allowed the Austrians to sign the Treaty of Vienna...

Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...

བོད་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: bod chen po,lit. 'Great Tibet') was an empire centered on the Tibetan Plateau, formed as a result of expansion under the Yarlung dynasty...

Romans. The end of ancient Egypt is variously defined as occurring with the end of the Late Period during the Wars of Alexander the Great in 332 BC or with...

wrt-ḥk3w "great one of magic, great enchantress"; alternately Urthekau, Weret Hekau) was an ancient Egyptian deity. She served as the personification of supernatural...

domination List of empires List of largest empires List of medieval great powers List of former sovereign states List of transcontinental countries List of Hindu...

Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires, were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1918). It consisted of the German...

Central Powers of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first...

to have a similar use of them without the protector's strength. Amical protection was frequently extended by the great powers to other Christian (generally...

the building dates of the railways that made up the Great Eastern and the companies that built them. Abbreviations from above list. Other railways NLR...

of magic. When Kaluu shared this knowledge of the mystic arts with the Ancient One, the two disagreed on how they would use the powers. The Ancient One...

Indirect rule was a system of governance used by imperial powers to control parts of their empires. This was particularly used by colonial empires like...

described as the Pax Britannica ("British Peace"), a period of relative peace amongst the great powers (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the...

This is a list of proxy wars. Major powers have been highlighted in bold. A proxy war is defined as "a war fought between groups of smaller countries...

This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout ancient history, noted as being unusual by multiple...

historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western...

Shuma-Gorath belongs to the Great Old Ones, a race of ancient eldritch beings who predate Earth. It is a recurring antagonist of the superhero Doctor Strange...