List of empires

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This is a list of the 20 best-known empires, ranked by reach: how many Wikipedia languages and sister sites have a page about each one.

#	Name	Year
1	Ottoman EmpireEmpire with the monarchs from the Ottoman dynasty (1299–1922)	1299
2	Seleucid EmpireHellenistic-era Greek state in Western Asia (312–63 BC)	312 BC
3	First French EmpireEmpire of Napoleon I of France, from 1804 to 1815	1804
4	Ancient CarthagePhoenician city-state and empire	814 BC
5	Neo-Assyrian EmpireHistorical state in Mesopotamia	911 BC
6	Sikh EmpireEmpire on the Indian subcontinent (1799–1849)	1733
7	Sultanate of Zanzibar1856–1964 monarchy in the Indian Ocean	1856
8	Kingdom of PontusHellenistic-era kingdom centred in northern Anatolia (281 BC-62 AD)	281 BC
9	Serbian Empire1346–1371 empire in the Balkan Peninsula	1346
10	Empire of VietnamShort-lived puppet state (March–August 1945) of Japan governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin	1945
11	Rozwi EmpireEmpire (1660-1880) in present Zimbabwe	1660
12	Wari EmpireFormer country	600
13	MelayuKingdom in Southeast Asia	671
14	Sultanate of MogadishuMedieval Somali sultanate	901
15	Iranian monarchy
16	Old Assyrian EmpireHistorical period in Assyria
17	Abbasid Caliphate of CairoSucesor del califato de Bagdad	1260
18	Luba-Lunda states
19	Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt's rule over the Levant
20	History of the Pagan KingdomHistory of the first Burmese empire that laid the foundation of its native language and culture in modern-day Myanmar