We all have favourite empires lads, so what's yours? I

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>>1440564
Ottoman.
Song.
Roman.
British.

>>1440584
Why do you like the Ottomans?

I M P E R I U M R O M A N U M
M O
P M
E A
R N
I U
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>>1440620
Only true successor to the Roman Empire.

[spoiler]Memes aside: Janissaries, harems, Barbary pirates, lots of cool wars with eastern Europe, based Sultans, political intrigue with the Papacy etc.[/spoiler]

>>1440564
>Roman empire
>italian empire
No, just no

>>1440564
Ottoman
Mongol
Roman
German

This is just from the top of my head I might change german and mongol for different ones.

>Roman empire is termed "Italian empire"

This bugs me.

>>1440564


>Hittite Empire

>German Empire (1871-1918)

>Roman Empire

>Gupta Empire

Eastern Roman

Mughal

Song

Shu-Han

Achaemenid

Russian

Roman Empire

American Empire

German Empire (1871-1918)

Persian Empire

Napoleonic French Empire

British Empire

I have more but these are my top favorites

>>1440564
bohemian i mean it wasnt truely an empire but it counts.

British Empire for single handedly advancing humanity 300 science points

Holy Roman of course

>No one loves the Austrian Empire

I still miss her ;_;

>>1442023
subjected my great Bohemian "empire" all in all it didnt really try to take shit over just be left alone to which several crusades where launched against them.
>>1442023
>No one loves the Austrian Empire
yea sure of course i do. honestly worse true empires could have taken hold of Bohemia and later did but still. they only tired to suppress chez culture (not genocide.) didn't get it done though clearly.

Why is Japan listed twice? You really couldn't think of another empire?

>>1441985
t. Brit

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Ottoman Empire

Viking Empire (I know it wasn't centralized or an actual empire but i still got a boner for how far their influence reached)

British Empire

And what this nigger said >>1441971
Can't help the nationalistic feels

>>1440654
>lots of cool wars with eastern Europe
They were the bad guys anon

>>1440630
>IMPERIUMMOMANUM

yeah I liked that too

It still amazes me that the Ottoman empire only ended less than a century ago.

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>>1442555
To be fair, the bad guys are always the coolest.

Favorite empire? Do you even have to ask?
IMPERIVM ROMANVM! SPQR!

>>1442023
>>1442073
The Austrian Empire, hands down wins the award for the greatest anthem of all times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p39ulIfnzc

>>1440564

How could you leave out the Mongol empire? The largest continuous empire in human history.

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>>1442555
frankly the 1400-1700 period is overlooked in historical movies/tv shows a lot
ottomans are the bad guys, but they are a cool type of bad guys desu
t.turk

https://youtu.be/ceOBeyRiwdU?t=197

Roman

British

Napoleon

Alexander

>>1440564
Russian
East Roman
Classical Roman Empire

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>>1442555
>>1442656
>To be fair, the bad guys are always the coolest.

this, i live in the balkans and i can understand the appeal of ottoman aesthetics/romanticism even though we got fucked hard by them. i mean just look at their coat of arms

>>1440564

British
Roman
Mongol

Everything else barely qualifies as empire DESU

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>>1442928
>French
>Habsbourgian (Spanish)
>Ottoman
>Abbassid
>Not empires

>>1442951

>French
>Spanish

Permanently stuck in the shadow of the British

>Ottoman
>Abbassid

meh

>>1442985
>Spanish
>Permanently suck in the shadow of the British

you just lost all credibility. Go read a book

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>
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Spanish , portuguese and dutch desu

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>>1440564

>>1440660
>>1440723
romans were italians

we are still the romans to this day

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>>1444093
Yeah ok Luigi

>>1440564
USSR never had Finland lad

>>1444113
Hans pls go

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third reich

>>1442555
>implying bad guys even exist
kys

>>1444113
The implication being that most Romans wouldn't have looked similar to that?

>>1442717
>>1442928
>>1440674
My niggas. Mongol best empire.

Also, American, Portuguese (they tried), Viking, Merkel's 4th Reich... C-carthagian Empire...

Roma Invincta, I guess.

>>1444093
WE WUZ DA SENATE N SHEIT

Rome(thet fell in 1453), Abyssinia and the Sassanids

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>>1441988
Wait a second, do you mean...

Secular Germanic Confederation?

>>1440564
I kind of like the Inca in a "You tried" sort of way.

>>1444286
Kek
>>1440564
Ottoman. I really like their architecture, find the internal politics and their military history to be really interesting, and for some reason I like seeing the changing stances in religious freedom over time. For anyone that hasn't read it yet, I would highly recommend The Ottoman Centuries, by Baron Kinross.