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Empire (disambiguation)

An empire is a group of states or peoples under centralized rule.

Empire may also refer to:

Buildings

  • Empire (skyscraper), formerly the Imperia Tower, a complex in Moscow, Russia
  • Empire, Colombo, a residential complex in Sri Lanka
  • Empire State Building, a skyscraper in New York City

Places in the United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics and graphic novels

  • Empire (comics), a 2000 DC Comics miniseries
  • Empire (graphic novel), by Samuel R. Delany and Howard Chaykin
  • Empyre, a 2020 Marvel Comics miniseries

Films

Gaming

Computer and videogames

  • Empire (1972 video game), a 1972 4X wargame
  • Empire (1977 video game), a 1977–2004 series of turn-based strategy games invented by Walter Bright
    • Empire: Wargame of the Century, video game developed by Walter Bright and published by Interstel Corporation in 1987
  • Empire (online game), a 1992 MUD, or text-based online role-playing game
  • Empire (PLATO), a 1973 space battle game for the PLATO system
  • Empire, a 1980s strategy game for the BBC Micro
  • Empire, or Empire: Alpha Complex, the working titles for the Xbox Live Arcade game Shadow Complex
  • Empire!, a 1986 space trading and combat video game
  • Empire: Total War, a 2009 strategy computer game
  • Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, a 2003 computer game in the Empire Earth series
  • The Empire, a video game trilogy (I: World Builders, II: Interstellar Sharks, III: Armageddon), developed by David Mullich

Other games

Literature

  • Empire (Card novel), by Orson Scott Card
  • Empire (Hardt and Negri book), a 2000 book about imperialism by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
  • Empire (H. Beam Piper book), a short story collection
  • Empire (Saylor novel), by Steven Saylor
  • Empire (Vidal novel), a Narratives of Empire book by Gore Vidal
  • Empire, a The Legend of Sigmar book by Graham McNeill
  • Empire, a Galaxy Science Fiction Novel by Clifford D. Simak
  • Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, a book by Niall Ferguson
  • Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British, a book by Jeremy Paxman
  • Empire Trilogy, a fantasy series by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
  • Galactic Empire (series), a sci-fi series by Isaac Asimov
  • The Empire (play), by DC Moore

Music

Groups

  • Empire (band), a British-German metal band
  • Empire (English band)
  • Empire (group), a Japanese idol group
  • Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), an emo group
  • Empires (band), an American rock group

Albums

  • Empire (Circle album), 2004, or the title song
  • Empire (Scott Colley album), 2010
  • Empire (Frankie DeCarlos album), 2011
  • Empire (EP), by The Word Alive, 2009
  • Empire (Kasabian album), 2006
  • Empire (Madball album), 2010, or the title song
  • Empire (Derek Minor album), 2015 album by American artist Derek Minor
  • Empire (Queensrÿche album), 1990
  • Empire (Super8 & Tab album), 2010
  • Empire, from the Hood to Hollywood, 2015 album by American rapper Master P
  • Empires (Animosity album), 2005, or the title song
  • Empires (Hillsong United album), 2015, or the title song
  • Empires (Jimi Jamison album), 1999
  • Empires (VNV Nation album), 1999
  • The Empire (album), by Vader, 2016

Songs

  • "Empire" (Kasabian song), 2006
  • "Empire" (Queensrÿche song), 1990
  • "Empire" (Shakira song), 2014
  • "Empire", a song by Bomb the Bass
  • "Empire", a song by Boysetsfire on the album The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years
  • "Empire", a song by August Burns Red on the album Leveler
  • "Empire", a song by David Byrne on the album Grown Backwards
  • "Empire", a song by Chimaira on the album Resurrection
  • "Empire", a song by Fear Factory on the album Transgression
  • "Empire", a song by Ella Henderson on the album Chapter One
  • "Empire", a song by Hybrid on the album Disappear Here
  • "Empire", a song by In Strict Confidence on the album Face the Fear
  • "Empire", a song by Mac on the album Shell Shocked
  • "Empire", a song by Machinae Supremacy on the album Redeemer
  • "Empire", a song by Of Monsters and Men on the album Beneath the Skin
  • "Empire", a song by Pete Philly and Perquisite on the album Mystery Repeats
  • "Empire", a song by Superheist on the album Identical Remote Controlled Reactions
  • "Empire", a song by The Black Angels on the album Passover
  • "Empire", a song by Trampled by Turtles on the album Duluth
  • "Empire", a song by Dar Williams on the album My Better Self
  • "Empires", a song by 10 Years on the album The Autumn Effect
  • "Empires", a song by Chicane on the album Easy to Assemble
  • "Empires", a song by Snog
  • "Empires (Bring Me Men)", a 2002 song by Lamya on the album Learning from Falling
  • "Empires" (Alicja Szemplińska song), the Polish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Periodicals

  • Empire (film magazine), a British film magazine
  • Empire (newspaper), an Australian newspaper
  • Empire (South African magazine), 2007–2008
  • Empire News, an 1884–1960 British newspaper

Television

  • Empire (1962 TV series), a Western series
  • Empire (1984 TV series), a sitcom
  • Empire (2005 TV series), a historical drama series
  • Empire (2006 TV series), a current-events television series
  • Empire (2012 TV series), a documentary series
  • Empire (2015 TV series), a music industry drama series
  • "Empire" (Law & Order), a 1999 episode of the police/legal drama series

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Empire (show), a contemporary circus show that debuted in New York City
  • Galactic Empire (Star Wars), a fictional autocracy in the Star Wars franchise

Brands and enterprises

Airlines

  • Empire Airlines (1976–1985), a defunct American airline
  • Empire Airlines, an American airline
  • Empires Airlines, an American airline that operated in the 1940s

Motor vehicles

Other brands and enterprises

  • Empire Company, a Canadian holding company
    • Empire Theatres, the second-largest movie theatre chain in Canada and a subsidiary of the above company
  • Empire Distribution, an American distribution company and record label
  • Empire Interactive, a video game publisher
  • Empire Records (disambiguation), any of several record labels
  • Empire Theatre (41st Street), a Broadway theatre that was prominent in the first half of the twentieth century
  • Empire Today, an American home furnishing company
  • Moss Empires music hall theatres, and now cinemas as well, originally including:

Plants and animals

  • Empire (apple), a cultivar of apple
  • Empire (biology), a taxonomic rank of organisms

Transportation

  • Empire ships, ships prefixed Empire - many ships operated by the British Government
  • Short Empire, a pre-WWII flying boat

Sports

  • Empire Cricket Club, Barbados
  • Empire Games, a sporting festival now known as the Commonwealth Games
  • The Empire (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable, formed in 2020 in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW)

Other uses

  • Empire (program), a computer software for molecular orbital calculations
  • Empire High School, Tucson, Arizona
  • Empire silhouette, a style of women's fashion
  • Empire style, a design movement
  • Project EMPIRE, a design-study for a human mission to Mars

See also

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