Empire (disambiguation)

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

Empire may also mean:

• Empire (biology), a taxon above the level of kingdom
• Empire (style), a style of architecture and furniture-design

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 Sports 1.7 Education 2 Places 3 Companies

[edit] Arts and culture

[edit] Print media

• Empire Series, a series of science-fiction novels by Isaac Asimov
• Empire (graphic novel) (1978), written by Samuel R. Delany and illustrated by Howard Chaykin
• Empire (book), a 2000 Neo-Marxist book on geopolitics by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt
• Empire (1987 novel), a novel by Gore Vidal, part of his American Chronicle 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
• Empire (Inheritance trilogy), the speculative title of the third book of the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini
• The Empire (newspaper) a former Australian newspaper owned by Sir Henry Parkes
• Empire (magazine), a UK film magazine
• Empire (comics), a comics miniseries

[edit] Film

• Empire (1964 film), by Andy Warhol
• Empire (1986 film), by Alexander Sokurov
• Empire (2002 film), starring John Leguizamo
• Empire (2005 miniseries), about the transition of the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire
• 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

[edit] Music

• Empire Records, a Polish death-metal label
• Empire (band), a band founded by guitarist Peter Banks of "Yes" fame
• 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 (2005 album), an album by Animosity
• Empires (1999 album), an album by VNV Nation
• Empire (1990 album), an album by Queensrÿche

[edit] Computer and video games

• Empire (computer game), one of several different computer games
• Empire Interactive, a video-game publisher
• The Empire, the enemy nation in the video game Final Fantasy VI.
• Empires (computer game), a free game developed on the source engine, requires Half-Life 2.

[edit] Tabletop games

• Empire (miniatures game), a Napoleonic miniatures game
• The Empire, a country in the Warhammer Fantasy setting

[edit] Sports

• Empir3, a company in the paintball industry, started in 2003

[edit] Education

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

[edit] Places

• Empire, California
• Empire, Louisiana
• Empire, a very small town in north Nevada near Gerlach
• Empire City, Oklahoma
• Inland Empire, one of several regions in the United States

[edit] Companies

• Empire (cinema), a famous cinema in London, England
• Empire Airlines, a charter and cargo airline in the United States
• Empire Company, a diversified company in Canada
• Empire Today, a carpet-company in the United States