The political party of the Young Turks, Ittihad ve Teraki ( the Turkish Committee of Union and Progress ), espoused the notion of Turanism, a mythic glorification of Turkish ethnic identity, and was devoted to restoring the Ottoman Empire's shattered national pride.

He received the submission of the Seleucid Empire's eastern provinces, while Egyptian fleets swept the coast of Asia Minor.

In this struggle, the Byzantine fleets were critical, not only for the defense of the Empire's far-flung possessions around the Mediterranean basin, but also in the repulsion of seaborne attacks against the imperial capital of Constantinople itself.

As its name suggests, it comprised most of the Empire's standing navy, and faced the principal maritime threat, the Arab fleets of Egypt and Syria.

The Empire's problems were exploited by Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria, who defeated Michael IX and conquered much of northeastern Thrace in c. 1305 – 1307.

The dissemination of imperial law to the provinces was facilitated under Diocletian's reign, because Diocletian's reform of the Empire's provincial structure meant that there were now a greater number of governors ( praesides ) ruling over smaller regions and smaller populations.

In an attempt to resolve the difficulty and slowness of transmitting orders to the frontier, the new capitals of the Tetrarchic era were all much closer to the Empire's frontiers than Rome had been: Trier sat on the Rhine, Sirmium and Serdica were close to the Danube, Thessaloniki was on the route leading eastward, and Nicomedia and Antioch were important points in dealings with Persia.

Some key elements of the German Empire's authoritarian political structure were also the basis for conservative modernization in Imperial Japan under Meiji and the preservation of an authoritarian political structure under the Tsars in the Russian Empire.

Relations between the Imperial centre and the Empire's components were somewhat fluid, and were developed on an ongoing basis.

Louis XIV benefited from the Empire's problems with the Turks, which were menacing Austria.

His rule was ended in 388, but not all the British troops may have returned: the Empire's military resources were struggling after the catastrophic Battle of Adrianople in 378.

In the meantime, the Ottoman Empire's weaknesses were revealed by the ongoing Italo-Turkish War in Libya.

Considered apocryphal is the report that his dying words were νενίκηκάς με, Γαλιλαῖε, or Vicisti, Galilaee (" You have won, Galilean "), supposedly expressing his recognition that, with his death, Christianity would become the Empire's state religion.

Leo secured the Empire's frontiers by inviting Slavic settlers into the depopulated districts and by restoring the army to efficiency ; when the Umayyad Caliphate renewed their invasions in 726 and 739, as part of the campaigns of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, the Arab forces were decisively beaten, particularly at Akroinon in 740.

Suleiman I's conquests were followed by continuous territorial expansion until the Empire's peak in 1683.

Deputies of Polish nationality were elected to the Prussian Landtag from 1848, and then to the German Empire's Reichstag from 1871.

Thessaloniki and Smyrna, although smaller in size than Constantinople, were the Ottoman Empire's most important trading hubs.

The successes of the Empire's Christianization policy towards the Slavs were nullified, and the political control over the Billung March and the Northern March ( territories east of the Elbe ) was lost.

In the Treaty of Utrecht, signed on 11 April 1713, Philip was recognized as king of Spain but his renunciation of succession rights to France was affirmed and, of the Spanish Empire's other European territories, Sicily was ceded to Savoy, and the Spanish Netherlands, Milan and Naples were alloted to the Austrian Habsburgs.

Both Schleswig and Holstein were therefore administered from Copenhagen, even after the Empire's dissolution, when the Danish kings as dukes of Holstein became monarchs of the German Confederation in 1815.

The X-wings were designed to appear more " traditional " than the Empire's TIE fighters.

Once he became Emperor, Maurice brought the war with Persia to a victorious conclusion: the Empire's eastern border in the Caucasus was vastly expanded, the Persian king Khosrau II married the Emperor's daughter, and for the first time in nearly two centuries the Romans were no longer obliged to pay the Persians thousands of pounds of gold annually for peace.

The central factor which precipitated the intervention of the three Great Powers in the Greek conflict were the Russian Empire's ambitions to expand in the Black Sea region at the expense of the Ottoman Empire and Russian emotional support for the fellow-Orthodox Christian Greeks, who had rebelled against their Ottoman overlords in 1821.

The economy of the Roman Empire had been based on money, but after the Empire's fall, money became scarce ; power and wealth became strictly land based, and local fiefs were self-sufficient.

In 1910, following the British Empire's defeat of the Afrikaner in the Boer Wars, four self-governing colonies in the south of Africa were merged into the Union of South Africa.

Though Ishaq assembled more than 40, 000 soldiers to meet the Moroccans, his army fled the enemy's gunpowder weapons at the decisive Battle of Tondibi in March 1591 ; Judar soon seized and looted the Songhai capital of Gao as well as the trading centers of Timbuktu and Djenné, ensuring the Empire's destruction.

Aurelian restored the Empire's eastern provinces after his conquest of the Palmyrene Empire in 273.

In the meantime, other Byzantine forces restored much of Southern Italy, lost over the previous 150 years, to the Empire's control.

Hadrian is considered by many historians to have been wise and just: Schiller called him " the Empire's first servant ", and British historian Edward Gibbon admired his " vast and active genius ", as well as his " equity and moderation ".

A telling incident took place after the battle, a testimony to Mieszko's high standing among the Empire's dignitaries, just one year after his baptism: Widukind of Corvey reported that the dying Wichmann asked Mieszko to hand over Wichmann's weapons to Emperor Otto I, to whom Wichmann was related.

Restrictions on the relationship between the government and religion was mandated by the United States during the occupation of Japan because of the role State Shinto played in encouraging the rapid territorial and economic expansion of the Empire of Japan significant enlargement of the Empire's geopolitical sphere of influence by endorsing and promoting the right of conquest in the years just before and during World War II.

In 2008, Peter Venkman was selected by the magazine Empire as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time, described by Empire's Nick de Semlyen as " the ultimate New York hero: cynical, sarcastic, secretly sweet-natured ", " a man possessed by manic spontaneity, with a wont to twirl in circles around a public concourse or declare undying love for a woman he's just met ", and the " most popular " character played by Murray.

In contrast to the Prussian staff, Austrian staff officers gained their posts either by membership of one of the six hundred aristocratic families which controlled the Austrian Empire's wealth and patronage, or after uninspiring training which made them into plodding, rule-bound clerks.

At the height of the Empire's power, a 10, 000 man army was stationed in the city, and Seku Amadu ordered the construction of six hundred madrasas to further the spread of Islam.

At the height of the Empire's power, a 10, 000 man army was stationed in the city, and Seku Amadu ordered the construction of six hundred madrasas to further the spread of Islam.

In the year 1702, Daud Khan of the Carnatic | Daud Khan the Mughal Empire's local Subedar of the Carnatic region | Carnatic, to besieged and blockaded Fort St. George for more than three months, the governor of the fort Thomas Pitt was instructed by the British East India Company to vie for peace.

However, after being told that explaining why he isn't supposed to go into the Empire's territory would take several months, he stops listening and wanders off deeper into the dungeon.

The Diocletianic Persecution ( 303 – 11 ), the Empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, did not destroy the Empire's Christian community ; indeed, after 324 Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under its first Christian emperor, Constantine.

Not only was Suleiman a distinguished poet and goldsmith in his own right ; he also became a great patron of culture, overseeing the golden age of the Ottoman Empire's artistic, literary and architectural development.

While the ships first appear with a red and grey Republic color scheme, the Venator at the movie's end is gray and white ; this lack of color signifies the Empire's rise to power.

After this Nepos ruled, briefly, over the whole of the remaining Western Roman Empire ; still centered on Italy, the Empire's heartland, and including his native Dalmatia, and the remaining parts of Roman Gaul.

In practical terms, Odoacer was an increasingly independent King of Italy, nominally recognizing the Eastern Empire's suzerainty ; Nepos retained claim to the Imperial title, but exercised no real power outside of Dalmatia.

In Empire's End, Threepio and Artoo are nearly destroyed after they spot an Imperial installing a homing beacon on the Millennium Falcon ; but are saved by Han Solo and Chewbacca.

As entry into the Western Empire's military was a frequently-used option for " losers of struggles for leadership among the barbarians ", and Ricimer's family would have thus entered the service of Rome .< ref > Sister: Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths, ( 1979 ) 1988: 33, following Martindale, Prosopography, 2: 524f ; daughter: Wolfram 1988: 202.

Superpower collapse is the political collapse of a superpower nation-state ; the term is most often used to describe the dissolution of the Soviet Union but also can be applied to the end of the British Empire's superpower status.

The French Defence Minister sent a battalion to secure the ceremony ; he also lent 17 aircraft to the new Central African Empire's government, and even assigned French Navy personnel to support the orchestra.

Dar al -' Ahd ( Arabic: دار &# 32 ; العهد " house of truce " or Dar al-Sulh " house of treaty ") was invented to describe the Ottoman Empire's relationship with its Christian tributary states.

Mongol Empire's largest extent outlined in red ; Timur's empire is shaded

At some points in the Empire's history, the emperor's power was nominal ; powerful praetorian prefects, masters of the soldiers and on a few occasions, other members of the Imperial family including Imperial mothers and grandmothers acted as the true source of power.

The political idea of an Emperor in the West to match the Emperor in the East continued after the Western Roman Empire's collapse ; it was revived by the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 ; the self-described Holy Roman Empire ruled over central Europe until 1806.

Constantine's campaigns were costly ; during his reign the Byzantine Empire's annual revenues were reduced to about 1, 800, 000 nomismata due to his various wars and the Arab conquests.

Many worlds quickly accept ; others, known as outies, continue to resist the Empire's hegemony.

He discovers that the mirror-Kirk has been ordered to annihilate the Halkans if they refuse the Empire's " request " to mine dilithium ; horrified, he studies his counterpart's records further.

While the Ottoman Empire's main desert base at Hafir el Auja was more centrally located, the British Empire base was some to the west of El Arish ; almost at the limits of their lines of communication.

On 18 September 1822, eleven days after proclaiming Brazil's independence Royal Prince Dom Pedro signed a decree instituting these arms stating "... henceforth the arms of this Empire of Brazil will be, on a green field, a gold armillary sphere superimposed on a cross of the Order of Christ, the sphere encircled by 19 silver stars on a blue circle ; and an imperial crown with diamonds set atop the shield, the sides of which will be embraced by two plants of coffee and tobacco, as emblems of its Empire's riches, in their proper colors and tied at the bottom with the national bow-knot.

The following year, new legislation made the CUP the Empire's only legal political party ; all provincial and local officials reported to " Responsible Secretaries " chosen by the party for each vilayet.

Neil Fallon has provided guest vocals on the songs " Two Coins for Eyes " and " Empire's End " on the 2008 album Beyond Colossal by Swedish stoner rock band Dozer ; " Crazy Horses " ( a cover of a song by The Osmonds ) by Throat ; " Slippin ' Out " by Never Got Caught ; " Mummies Wrapped in Money " by Lionize ; " Fearless Force " for early New York Hardcore band The Mob ; and " Blood and Thunder " by Mastodon on their 2004 album Leviathan.