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Viking Age trade routes stretched from modern Iceland, Britain, and Ireland in the West all the way to the Byzantine and Arab Empires in the East.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2024

Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

"The Commonwealth bears no resemblance to the Empires of the past," the Queen explained in her Christmas message in 1953.

From BBC • May 29, 2022

Not for nothing is Darren Lemming, the fictional center fielder of a team called the Empires, also at the center of “Take Me Out,” Richard Greenberg’s gay fantasia on the national pastime.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022

The Kingdom of Armenia, for example, established Christianity as its official religion in 301, and Armenians held on to their religious independence even when they were subsumed into the later Persian and Arabic Empires.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall