Today this empire does not exist, although Britain keeps links with some of its former empire.

But Cafferty's empire still existed, maybe even flourished, under the control of a man called the Weasel.

Modern scholars question whether a Median empire even existed.

Six months later the city had fallen, and the eastern empire no longer existed.

More than 50,000 colonial worlds will realize at once that the stellar empire no longer exists.

The empire, based in the Punjab region, existed from 1799 to 1849.

Or would the empire even exist at that time?

The empire of Japan no longer exists, having been conquered and absorbed by China over a hundred years ago.

A decade later, the Soviet empire no longer existed, and the postwar division of the world came to an end.

This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.