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.

• Achaemenid Empire

• American Empire

• Babylon (Old Babylonian Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire)

• British Empire

• Byzantine Empire

• Carthaginian Empire

• Empire of Japan

• Francia

  • East Francia

  • Middle Francia

  • West Francia

• Holy Roman Empire

• Hunnic Empire

• Macedonian Empire

• Median 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

• Hanover

• Illyria

• Kievan Rus

• Manchukuo

• Mississippian culture

• Mycenean Greece

• Rajput kingdoms

• Styria

• Tyrol

• Western Sahara

• Yugoslavia

Historic Regions

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

• Balearic Islands

• Bessarabia

• Budjak

• Caledonia

• Carpathia

• Cieszyn Silesia

• Circassia

• Dobruja

International Wars

• Anglo-Spanish War and the Treaty of Seville

• Austro-Prussian War

• Italian Wars and the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis

• Italian Wars of Independence

  • First

  • Second

  • see Austro-Prussian War for the Third

• Korean War

• Napoleonic Wars

• Nine Years War

• Seven Years War (incl. French and Indian War) and the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg (for Third Silesian War)

• Silesian Wars

  • see War of Austrian Succession for the First and Second

  • see Seven Years War for the Third

• Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia

• Turkish War of Independence and the Treaty of Lausanne

• World War 1

• World War 2

• Vietnam War

• War of Austrian Succession and the Treaties of Aix-la-Chapelle, Berlin (for First Silesian War), and Dresden (for Second Silesian War)

• War of Jenkin's Ear

• War of Polish Succession

• War of Spanish Succession and the Treaties of Utrecht, Rastatt, and Baden

• War of the Quadruple Alliance and the Treaty of the Hague

• Wars of Lombardy

• Yugoslav Wars

International Organizations, Treaties, and Laws

• African Union

• Allied Powers

• Allies

• Anglo-German Naval Agreement

• Association of Southeast Asian Nations

• Axis

  • Anti-Comintern Pact

  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

  • Tripartite Pact

• Berlin Conference

• Catholic Church

• Central Powers

• Cominform

• Comintern

• Congress of Berlin

• Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls

• 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

• Quadrilateral Security Dialogue

• Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

• Second International

• Second Vienna Award

• Spa Conference

• United Nations

  • International Atomic Energy Agency

  • International Criminal Court

  • World Trade Organization

• Warsaw Pact

• Wassenaar Arrangement

• World Medical Association

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