After the empire's defeat in World War I the empire ceased to exist.

By 1343, last of these dynasties had ceased to exist, giving rise to the Vijayanagar empire.

The ethnically and culturally heterogeneous nation state of Austria is the remnant of Austria-Hungary, a vast multinational empire that ceased to exist in 1918.

Many others were drawn into the Tiwanaku empire due to religious beliefs as Tiwanaku never ceased being a religious center.

The Danes, in spite of every discouragement, never ceased to strive for the preservation and extension of their national traditions and language ; the Germans were equally bent on effectually absorbing these recalcitrant Teutons into the general life of the German empire ; and to this end the uncertain status of the Danish optants was a useful means.

The cataphracts deployed by the Byzantine Empire ( most noticeably after the 7th century, when Late Latin ceased to be the official language of the empire ) were exclusively referred to as Kataphraktoi, due to the Byzantine Empire's strong Greek influence, as opposed to the Romanized term Cataphractos, which subsequently fell out of use.

The Chikkadevraja however began to draw close to the Mughal empire and ceased to follow his treaties with the Marathas.

Towards the end of the 3rd century, Roman towns in Britain ceased to expand: like patricians near the centre of the empire, Roman Britons withdrew from the cities to their villas, which entered on a palatial building phase, a " golden age " of villa life.

The kingdom ceased to exist in the 13th century due to various factors, including the expansion of the Javanese Majapahit empire.

For the first two centuries after Christ, a large sea-borne trade was carried on between the Roman empire and the Tamil kingdoms ; but after Caracalla's massacre at Alexandria in A. D. 215, this ceased, and with it all intercourse with Europe for centuries also.

Today, the only remaining vestiges of this empire are the Faroe Islands and Greenland ; the Faroes were a Danish county until 1948, while Greenland's colonial status ceased in 1953.

Singapore joined the Federation of Malaysia on 16 September 1963, and thus ceased to be a colony of the British empire.

The old mighty empire of the Sassanids had ceased to exist.

Lucile's connection with her design empire began to disintegrate following a restructuring of Lucile, Ltd in 1918 – 19, and by September 1922 she had ceased designing for the company, which gradually diminished in success after her departure.

In the early 8th century, with the rise of the Toltec empire, Teotihuacan ceased to be a major urban centre and the population shifted to Tollan or Tula on the northern front of Valley of Mexico.

Literary activity largely ceased, being concentrated in the monasteries that established themselves as centres of Bulgarian culture in the foreign empire.

" Aramaisms " exist that indicate a period when Aramaic was the official language during the Persian empire.

The Mongols, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, overran most of Asia, thus creating the second largest empire to ever exist, surpassed only by the British Empire.

According to the Nagarakertagama, around the 13th century, Majapahit's vassal states spread throughout much of today's Indonesia, making it the largest empire ever to exist in Southeast Asia.

At its greatest extent, it covered more than five million square miles ( 13, 000, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), making it one of the largest empires the world had yet seen, and the seventh largest contiguous empire ever to exist.

And in the United States, empire does not even exist ; ' we ' are merely protecting the causes of freedom, democracy, and justice worldwide.

For military and commercial reasons, the empire simply could not continue to exist if did not understand the needs, and develop the industrial infrastructure to provide, the aviation systems and sub-systems necessary to supply and maintain a global air transport service.

Few reliable records exist of the practice before the time of the Gupta empire, approximately 400 CE.

Despite the empire continuing to exist thereafter during a slow decline, the original capital was not reoccupied or rebuilt.

There are 10 endings in the game that range from Shadow destroying Earth, Shadow serving and protecting Black Doom, Shadow killing Doctor Eggman to take over his empire, Shadow accepting he was destructive through his life and that he shouldn't exist to Shadow killing Black Doom and his army.

Minor Phrygian kingdoms continued to exist after the end of the Phrygian empire, and the Phrygian art and culture continued to flourish.

Although they have been an empire in the past, the Sto Plains currently exist as a loose collection of independent city-states, ruled over by a close-knit ( and probably interrelated ) ruling class.

It was greatly expanded by Marie-Claudette's great granddaughter Mary-Beth Mayfair into a massive financial empire which by the present day need only continue to exist in order to grow.

Tengrist people believe that Yer-sub spirits exist in trees, lakes, mountains, stones, and sometimes in a whole empire, and that Yer-sub spirits are the forgotten souls of ancestors.

The remnants of Narfell's magnificent empire still exist, the ruins littering the region's plains.

The Elswick works still exist today, much reduced as part of the Vickers armaments empire.

This incident shows the strong position of a bishop in the Western part of the empire, even when facing a strong emperor — the controversy of John Chrysostom with a much weaker emperor a few years later in Constantinople led to a crushing defeat of the bishop.

Alemannia lost its distinct jurisdictional identity when Charles Martel absorbed it into the Frankish empire, early in the 8th century.

Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.

Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).

Micah's career corresponds to the period when, after a long period of peace, Israel, Judah, and the other nations of the region came under increasing pressure from the aggressive and rapidly expanding Assyrian empire.

Jonah had already uttered his message of warning, and Nahum was followed by Zephaniah, who also predicted ( Zephaniah 2: 4-15 ) the destruction of the city, predictions which were remarkably fulfilled ( 625 BC ) when Nineveh was destroyed apparently by fire, and the Assyrian empire came to an end, an event which changed the face of Asia.

The administrative reforms and military brilliance of Aluma sustained the empire until the mid-17th century, when its power began to fade.

Æthelstan's empire, seemingly made safe by the victory of Brunanburh, collapsed in little more than a year from his death when Amlaíb returned from Ireland and seized Northumbria and the Mercian Danelaw.

US − Soviet relations deteriorated rapidly beginning in March 1983, when US President Ronald Reagan dubbed the Soviet Union an " evil empire ".

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

The biggest extension of Eritrea was reached during the Italian empire ( 1936 – 1941 ), when northern parts of conquered Ethiopia were assigned to Eritrea by the Italians as a reward for the Eritrean " Ascaris '" help in the conquest of Ethiopia

The empire came to an end in 1889, with the overthrow of Emperor D. Pedro II ( D. Pedro I's son and successor ), when the Brazilian republic was proclaimed.

It is also known that Tigranes the Great, king of Armenia, was named as the king of kings when he made his empire after defeating the Parthians.

Sometimes an empire is a semantic construction, such as when a ruler assumes the title of " Emperor ".

It is believed that when the Assyrian Empire was destroyed Babylon developed as an empire with its very famous hanging gardens.

The second occupation was probably connected with Antoninus ' undertakings to protect the Votadini or his pride in enlarging the empire, since the retreat to the Hadrianic frontier occurred not long after his death when a more objective strategic assessment of the benefits of the Antonine Wall could be made.

Britannia was part of this until 274 when Aurelian reunited the empire.

The empire reached its peak during the rule of Krishnadevaraya when Vijayanagara armies were consistently victorious.

Hannibal lived during a period of great tension in the Mediterranean, when the Roman Republic established its supremacy over other great powers such as Carthage, the Hellenistic kingdoms of Macedon, Syracuse, and the Seleucid empire.

Before and during World War II, when Japan occupied Korea, Taiwan, parts of China, the Philippines, and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire.

The Charlotte Observer reported that the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) still holds Bakker and Roe Messner, Tammy Faye's husband from 1993 until her death in 2007, liable for personal income taxes owed from the 1980s when they were building the PTL empire, taxes assessed after the IRS revoked the PTL ministry's nonprofit status.

Although he spoke very little Czech himself, Gödel automatically became a Czechoslovakian citizen at age 12 when the Austro-Hungarian empire broke up at the end of World War I.

Gaul is still held by the Roman Empire when it is conquered, and Arthur's victory naturally leads to a further confrontation between his empire and Rome's.