World History

Dissolved Empires

Empires that either don't have a convenient modern equivalent, don't have a widely recognized successor state, or are so ancient that successor states aren't relevant. The USSR actually does fall into those descriptions but it's rather insufficient to treat it as just a chapter of Russian history.

Empires are distinguished from international organizations by the number of states with effective agency. The EU is multi-polar, while the USSR was not.

• Byzantine Empire

• Carthaginian Empire

• Carolingian Dynasty

• Empire of Japan

• Francia

  • East Francia

  • Middle Francia

  • West Francia

• Holy Roman Empire

• Hunnic Empire

• Macedonian Empire

• Mongol Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Republic of Venice

• Roman Empire

• Soviet Union

• Timurid Empire

Dissolved States

States that either don't have a convenient modern equivalent, don't have a widely recognized successor state, or are so ancient that successor states aren't relevant. Yugoslavia is a bit iffy but I include it anyway.

Excludes empires.

• Dalmatian city states

• Don Republic

• Illyria

• Kievan Rus

• Manchukuo

• Mycenean Greece

• Rajput kingdoms

• Styria

• Tyrol

• Western Sahara

• Yugoslavia

Historic Regions

Regions that have historic context, but not a historic state.

• Bessarabia

• Budjak

• Carpathia

• Cieszyn Silesia

• Circassia

• Dobruja

International Wars

• Austro-Prussian War

• Italian Wars of Independence

  • First

  • Second

  • see Austro-Prussian War for the Third

• Korean War

• Napoleonic Wars

• World War 1

• World War 2

• Vietnam War

• War of Austrian Succession

• War of Polish Succession

• War of Spanish Succession

International Organizations, Treaties, and Laws

• African Union

• Allied Powers

• Allies

• Anglo-German Naval Agreement

• Association of Southeast Asian Nations

• Axis

• Berlin Conference

• Catholic Church

• Central Powers

• Cominform

• Comintern

• Congress of Berlin

• Dawes Plan

• European Union

• First Vienna Award

• League of Nations

• Little Entente

• Marshall Plan

• Munich Agreement

• North American Free Trade Agreement

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

• Organization of African Unity

• Organization of American States

• Paris Accords

• Peace of Westphalia

• Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

• Second International

• Second Vienna Award

• Spa Conference

• Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

• Treaty of Trianon

• Treaty of Versailles

• United Nations

  • International Atomic Energy Agency

  • International Criminal Court

  • World Trade Organization

• Wassenaar Arrangement

• World Medical Association

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