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en-wikipedia-org-4444		List of largest empires - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5071	1252	85	List of largest empires Wikipedia Several empires in world history have been contenders for the largest of all time, depending on definition and mode of measurement. The list is not exhaustive owing to a lack of available data for several empires; for this reason and because of the inherent uncertainty in the area estimates, no rankings are given. Largest empires by land area Largest empires by land area Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed. ^ More recent reassessment of the historical evidence, both archaeological and textual, has led modern scholars to question previous notions of the extent of the realm of the Medes and even its existence as a unified state.[20] If the Median Empire never surpassed the size of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the latter remained the largest empire the world had seen until the Achaemenid Empire surpassed it.[23][11]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4444.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4444.txt