Empire (disambiguation)

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Politically, an empire consists of a large, usually multi-ethnic state.

Empire may also mean:

• Empire (biology), or domain, a taxon above the level of kingdom
• Empire style, an early-19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, and other decorative and visual arts
• Empire silhouette, a style of women's fashion

Contents 1 Arts and culture 1.1 Print media 1.2 Film 1.3 Music 1.4 Computer and video games 1.5 Tabletop games 1.6 Education 2 Places in the United States 3 Companies 4 Other

[edit] Arts and culture

[edit] Print media

• Empire Series, a series of science-fiction novels by Isaac Asimov
• Empire (book), a 2000 Neo-Marxist book on geopolitics by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt
• Empire (history), a 2003 the revisionist history of the British Empire by Niall Ferguson
• Empire (1987 novel), a novel by Gore Vidal, part of his Narratives of Empire series
• Empire (2006 novel), a novel about a near-future American Civil War by Orson Scott Card
• Empire Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
• The Empire (newspaper) a former Australian newspaper owned by Sir Henry Parkes
• Empire (magazine), a UK film magazine
• Empire (SA magazine), a South African media, arts and culture magazine
• Empire (comics), a comics miniseries

[edit] Film

• Empire (1964 film), by Andy Warhol
• Empire (1986 film), by Alexander Sokurov
• Empire of the Sun (1987 film), by Steven Spielberg and starring Christian Bale
• Empire Records (1995 film), by Allan Moyle
• Empire (2002 film), starring John Leguizamo
• Empire (2005 miniseries), about the transition of the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (or just Empire for short), a Star Wars film
• Galactic Empire (Star Wars), the enemies of the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars
• Inland Empire (film), a 2006 film by David Lynch

[edit] Music

• Empire (Kasabian album), the second album of the British band Kasabian
  • "Empire" (song), the debut single from Kasabian's album of the same name
• Empires (Animosity album), an album by Animosity
• Empires (1999 album), an album by VNV Nation
• Empires (1999 album), an album by Jimi Jamison
• Empire (Queensrÿche album), an album by Queensrÿche
• Alec Empire (b. Alexander Wilke, 1972), a German electronic and rock musician.
• I-Empire an album by Angels & Airwaves

[edit] Computer and video games

• The Empire Earth series
• Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, a game considered part of the "Empire Earth" series
• Classic Empire (computer game), a simple turn-based military game written in 1977 by Walter Bright
• Empire Classic (computer game), a complicated turn-based military-economic game based on a game called Civilization (no relation to the Sid Meier game)
• PLATO Empire, on the PLATO system, a live action team space battle game
• World Empire
• Empire Interactive, a video-game publisher
• The Empire, the enemy nation in the video game Final Fantasy VI
• Empire!, a 1986 video game for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64
• Empire: Total War, a real time tactics computer game by creative assembly
• Empire: Alpha Complex, a downloadable XBLA and PSN game developed by Chair Entertainment
• Empires, an FPS/RTS mod for Half-Life 2

[edit] Tabletop games

• The Empire (Warhammer), a country in the Warhammer Fantasy setting
• Empire (miniatures game), a Napoleonic miniatures game
• Empire (strategy game), a turn-based game of industrial development and military conquest

[edit] Education

• Empire High School, a high school in Arizona that uses laptops instead of textbooks

[edit] Places in the United States

• Empire, California
• Empire, Colorado
• Empire, Louisiana
• Empire, Michigan
• Empire, Nevada
• Empire, Ohio
• Empire, Oregon, a district in Coos Bay
• Empire, Wisconsin
• Empire City, Oklahoma
• Empire Township, Michigan
• Inland Empire, one of several regions in the United States.
• The Empire State Building in New York City (named after New York State's nickname The Empire State.)
• One of Georgia's nicknames is the Empire State of the South.

[edit] Companies

• Empire Airlines, a charter and cargo airline in the United States
• Empire Company, a diversified company in Canada
• Empire Today, a furnishing/carpet company in the United States
• Empire Cinemas, a multiplex cinema chain in the United Kingdom

[edit] Other

• Empire, Leicester Square, a notable cinema in London, England
• Empire (1901 automobile), an American automobile
• Empire (1910 automobile), an American automobile
• Empire (apple), a variety of apple.
• The Empire Builder, nickname of James J. Hill
  • Empire Builder, train named for Hill