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...

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

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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

policies. Ancient Greeks considered that the Gerousia was created by the mythical Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus in his Great Rhetra, the constitution of Sparta...

orthography) is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. It is one of the largest archaeological...

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...

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

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...

and before that to the Emperor ceding to Denmark Schleswig and a strip of ancient Danish territory between Hedeby and the Eider that the Germans had occupied...

onwards, Assyria rose under a series of warrior kings to become one of the major political powers of the Ancient Near East, and in its last few centuries...

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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...