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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east, and shares a maritime border with Denmark to the south. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas toge
Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Holy Roman Empire
multi-ethnic complex of territories in Western and Central Europe (800/962–1806)
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was the final period of the Russian monarchy, spanning most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about 22,800,000 km2 (8,800,000 sq mi), roughly one-sixth of the world's landmass, making it the third-largest empire in history, behind only the British and Mongol empires. It also colonized Alaska between 1799 and 1867. The empire's 1897 census, the only one it conducted, found a population of 125.6 million with considerable ethnic, linguistic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity.
Austria–Hungary
Austria-Hungary, also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and officially as the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional dual empire in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. A military and diplomatic alliance, it consisted of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both the Emperor of Austria and the Apostolic King of Hungary. Austria-Hungary constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy: it was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War, following wars of i
Spanish Empire
colonial empire governed by Spain between 1492 and 1976
Austrian Empire
Central European multinational Empire from 1804 to 1867
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
historical multinational monarchist state in Eastern Europe (Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
Confederate States of America
former country in North America formed by the Southern United States during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Western Roman Empire
independently administered western provinces of the Roman Empire
Republic of Venice
former state (697–1797) controlling, at various times, parts of northeastern Italy, the Balkans, and Mediterranean islands
Kingdom of England
historic kingdom on the British Isles (927–1649; 1660–1707)
Kingdom of Great Britain
constitutional monarchy in Western Europe (1707–1800)
Papal States
territories mostly in the Appenine Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope between 756–1870
Kingdom of Prussia
former European state (1701–1918), part of the German Empire after 1871
Portuguese Empire
global empire centered in Portugal (1415–1999)
Kingdom of France
kingdom in Western Europe (987–1792; 1815–1848)
Dutch Republic
predecessor state of the Netherlands (1581–1795)
Tsardom of Russia
Russian state from 1547 to 1721
Kingdom of Sardinia
state in Southern Europe from 1324 to 1861
Kingdom of Naples
Italian state (1282–1816)
Kingdom of Jerusalem
medieval Christian kingdom in the Middle East
Habsburg monarchy
monarchy in Europe (1282–1918)
Grand Principality of Moscow
Russian principality (1263–1547)
Kingdom of Scotland
historic sovereign kingdom on the British Isles from the 9th century and up to 1707
Kingdom of Aksum
trading nation in the area of Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia
Republic of Genoa
medieval and early modern maritime republic from (1005-1797)
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
state formed from the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1815–1861)
Kingdom of Wessex
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
Kingdom of Sicily
former state in southern Italy, 1130–1816
Kingdom of Hungary
Central European monarchy (1000–1946)
Ethiopian Empire
1270–1974 state in the Horn of Africa
Kingdom of Aragon
medieval and early modern kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula (1035-1707)
First Bulgarian Empire
medieval Bulgar-Slavic and later Bulgarian state that existed in Southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD.
Kingdom of Ireland
kingdom on the island of Ireland between 1542 and 1801
Visigothic Kingdom
Period of Germanic rule on the Iberian Peninsula (418–720) as a successor state to the Western Roman Empire.
Kingdom of Castile
European sovereign state (1065–1230)
Crown of Aragon
composite monarchy which existed between 1162–1716
Empire of Nicaea
successor state of the Byzantine Empire when the crusaders conquered Constantinople at Fourth Crusade of 1204
Kingdom of Asturias
former kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula
Novgorod Republic
historical country of the 12th–15th centuries in modern-day Russia
Empire of Brazil
empire in South America between 1822 and 1889
Kingdom of Navarre
Basque medieval kingdom that occupied lands on either side of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean (1162–1512)
Kingdom of Bohemia
monarchy in Central Europe, predecessor of modern Czech Republic
Empire of Trebizond
Byzantine Greek state on Black Sea coast
Kingdom of Romania
kingdom in Southeastern Europe between 1881 and 1947
Kingdom of Serbia
1882–1918 kingdom in Southeastern Europe
Kingdom of Greece
period of Greek statehood from 1832 to 1924 and 1935 to 1973
Crusader states
Christian states in the Levant, 1098–1291
Kingdom of Portugal
kingdom in Southwestern Europe (1139–1910)
Duchy of Milan
former duchy in Italy (1395–1447; 1450–1796)
Kingdom of Armenia
ancient state of Armenia
Kingdom of Montenegro
1910–1918 kingdom in Southeastern Europe
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
former Italian state (1569–1801; 1815–1859)
Republic of Florence
city-state on the Appenine Peninsula between 1115–1532/69
Kingdom of Hanover
German kingdom established in 1814
Second Bulgarian Empire
Medieval Bulgarian state (1185–1396)
Kingdom of Bulgaria
state on the Balkan Peninsula between 1908 and 1946
Kingdom of Saxony
former German state (1806-1918)
Slovak Republic
1939–1945 client state of Nazi Germany