The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (1080-1375)

After the devastating raids of Seljuks thousands of Armenians moved toward Cilicia - region of Armenia Minor situated between the Taurus and Amanus mountains close to Mediterranean coast. The Armenian population in Cilicia gradually became predominant. In 1080 a certain Prince Ruben, that the historians believe to be descendant of the Bagradouni and Ardzrouni dynasties, asserted authority over the local Armenian and Greek princes. Ruben became founder of a new glorious royal House of Rubenids that ruled over Cilicia for more than 300 years.
Ruben I and his successors maintained close contacts with the Crusaders. As a result, the new Armenian Principality, which later became Kingdom, imitated the principles of State organization accepted in European countries. A number of new ranks and titles were established. Armenian Nakharars became Knights and Barons, Sparapets were often called Constables etc. The Armenian Cilician noblemen used the Latin and French languages alongside the Armenian. Intermarriages between the members of the Armenian and European noble families were widespread.

While the inhabitants of the Greater Armenia eye-witnessed the loss of their national statehood and numerous foreign invasions, the Cilician Armenians lived in wealth and prosperity. Good geographic location involved the country into an intensive international trade. Science and culture flourished. This period of Armenian history is regarded as the brilliant Age of Ecclesiastical manuscript painting. The school of genius Thoros Roslin was especially famous. Theology, philosophy, rhetoric, medicine and mathematics were taught in a large number of new schools and monasteries. New significant names appeared in the Armenian literature, such as: Nerses Shnorhali, Matthew of Edessa, Vardan Aygektsi and Sembat the Constable.

How about the Melakan Empire?

A Palembang prince,Parameswara, runs away after conflicts in his country and settled in Temasek(present-day Singapore). After a while staying there, he killed the local chief, Tamagi to gain control of Temasek. However, Temasek was a vassal of Siam(Thailand) and the Siam King sent a force to capture Parameswara.

His followers and him flee northwards and eventually established the maritime empire of Melaka. Melaka, in its heyday manage to rival the three greatest empires in the region, Siam, Acheh and Majapahit. It accepted a pact with China since Siam was still looking for Parameswara. He eventually married a Chinese princess, Hang Li Po.

Melaka's teritory stretch from Malaysia, parts of Sumatra and Southern Phillipines. Eventually, falling from internal unrest and Portugese invasion by Alfonso Albuberque(sp?).

More info at http://www.malaya.org.uk - www.malaya.org.uk

The First Reich. Nobody considers it an Empire, since it had one war...

Other than that, Parthia? I think that's how you spell it. Crassus got dominated. Heh.

I forget the name... The Empire Yuan Shu made after he declared himself Empire of China, when he controlled 4 cities. Needless to say, he was massacred.

The Korean empire

Brazillian empire is often untold...seriously, we conquered so much of South America.

Kingdom of Axum is my favorite obscure one, followed by the Tibetan EMpire of the 700's

Hello!

The Urartu "empire". Urartu was a country north of assyria. It existed in the 8th century BC. Actually it was one of the very few dangerous enemies assyria had during that time. (Yes, it was conquered later on by assyria).

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And dont forget the neighbors of the Urartu empire in Anatolia, the Hittite Empire. They duked it out with the Persian empire, and im sure you guys can guess who came out on top. They started out in i believe the 18th century B.C. and lasted for about 600 years.

The Assyrians never managed to conquer the Urartu, the Urartuians were destroyed by the Medes.

Another not-very-known but long-lasting empire was the Qarluq Empire of 8th-10th centuries.

I was wondering, Has anyone else heard of the Mittanean empire?  I  have read about it only once and I wondered if it is known by another name typically. It Existed as a contemporary of the Hittite empire around the mid second century B.C. and survived for about 300 years. It eventually became a vassal state of the Hittites and was destroyed along with that people during the invasions of the "Sea Peoples" They were an Indo-European People who spoke a dialect of Sanskrit, and worshiped many Indo-Aryan dieties..

 Ok, I thought it was Gaul empire too, which couldn't be right since Gaul was only a region with many warring tribes. First time I heard of the Gallic empire though,now I understand why they sometime refer to us french as Gallic. And what the origin of the word Gallic? In french, we call the Welsh as Gallois and the country as Galle does it have something to do with the celts in any case.

The Celts of Central Anatolia were called Galat and the regions around Ancyra were named Galatia.

Really, is there a connection between the names Kelt and Gal.

Yes the Celts lived in Anatolia and last year their death bodies were found by Turkish archeologs.

 "but I found some strange map that had it in South East asia "

where exactly in south east asia? North Vietnam at the time is under the Dai Viet kingdom, south vietnam is the champa kingdom, cambodia under the khmer. Burma under the Pengu. Yunnan under Dali, is this Zeng empire in Thailand?

Haha, I know what you mean. I just like the Spartans alot. It must be that they're almost as stubborn as us Germans.

Well... Post 1500 is pretty much closing into Western History. That's where alot of the wars were, after all. The First American War of Independence, the War of 1812, The Franco-Prussian War, and, naturally, World War I and II. But yeah, it's biased. Of course it is. I don't think there were many huge dramatic changes after the 1600 in the East, after all. I'm not saying there weren't any, but... meh. From what I know, the West grew alot faster.

I beleive Axum has more to do with Ethiopia than Eritrea. I believe they spoke a language closely related to Amharic, but on the other hand they did have many important ports that traded with Egypt and India, so the empire probably held territory in what is today Eritrea.

Edit: Oh, I guess I know what you mean. I should clarify and say Axum never had anyting to do with Nubia, but I talked more about Nubia because people know less about it.