| Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
| Byzantine architecture | the style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire developed after the th century, massive domes with square bases and round arches and spires and much use of mosaics |
Medieval Greek
Middle Greek
Byzantine Greek | the Greek language from about to AD |
| Empire | an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh, used as both an eating and a cooking apple |
| empire | a group of countries under a single authority, the British created a great empire |
conglomerate
empire | a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization |
publishing conglomerate
publishing empire | a conglomerate of publishing companies |
Eastern Church
Byzantine Church | the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire |
| Holy Roman Empire | a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in and lasted untilwhen it was dissolved by Napoleon |
Hohenzollern empire
Second Reich | the Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from to ) |
| empire | a monarchy with an emperor as head of state |
| Mogul empire | an empire established by the Mogul conquerors of India that reigned from to |
| Second Empire | the imperial government of Napoleon III in France from - |
empire
imperium | the domain ruled by an emperor or empress, the region over which imperial dominion is exercised |
| Roman Empire | an empire established by Augustus in BC and divided in AD into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire, at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome |
Byzantine Empire
Byzantium Eastern Roman Empire | a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in |
Western Roman Empire
Western Empire | the western part after the Roman Empire was divided in , it lasted only until |
| British Empire | a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control, reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I, it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana, British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, the sun never sets on the British Empire |
Egyptian Empire
Egypt | an ancient empire to the west of Israel, centered on the Nile River and ruled by a Pharaoh, figured in many events described in the Old Testament |
| Persia Persian Empire | an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the th century BC |
Ottoman Empire
Turkish Empire | a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe, created by the Ottoman Turks in the th century and lasted until the end of World War I, although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire |
Georgia
Empire State of the South
Peach State
GA | a state in southeastern United States, one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War |
New York
New York State
Empire State
NY | a Mid-Atlantic state, one of the original colonies |
| Byzantine | a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire |
Commonwealth Day
Empire day
May | British, anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth |
Byzantine
convoluted
involved
knotty
tangled
tortuous | highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious, the Byzantine tax structure, Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship, convoluted legal language, convoluted reasoning, the plot was too involved, a knotty problem, got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering, Oh, what a tangled web we weave- Sir Walter Scott, tortuous legal procedures, tortuous negotiations lasting for months |
| Byzantine | of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium |
| Byzantine | of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it, Byzantine monks, Byzantine rites |