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Example sentences for: empire

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Berlin continued as a virtually autonomous outpost of the German empire until 1448, when Brandenburg’s Kurfürst (Prince Elector) Friedrich II took over control of the city after crushing the citizens’ violent resistance, the so-called Berliner Unwillen.
His son Philip II moved the capital of the great Spanish empire from Toledo to previously insignificant Madrid.
In 392 the Emperor Theodosius proclaimed Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire, and on his death in 395 the empire was split once more, between his two sons, and was never again to be reunited.
Julius Caesar’s nephew Octavian took the name Augustus; Rome ceased to be a republic, and became an empire.
While the Hittite Empire declined, other momentous events were taking place on the shores of the Aegean.