Extinct countries, empires, etc.

• Ur, Uruk?, Kish?, etc (Sumerian city-states)
• [Old Babylonia]?
• [New Babylonia]?
• Hittites
• Assyria
• Adiabene?
• Commagene
• [Persian Empire]?
• [Ancient Israel]?
• Athens, Sparta?, Syracuse, etc (Hellenic city-states)
• Empire of Alexander the Great (what is it called?)
• Carthage
• Indus Valley Civilisation
• Roman Republic, Roman Empire
• [Magadhan Empire]?
• [Mongol Empire]?
• [Tang China]?
• Egyptian Empire
• Aztec Empire
• [Mayan Empire]? Maya? Mayas? Mayan? Mayans? (When somebody creates this please make these other headings redirect to it. Thanks.)
• [Inca Empire]?

Medieval

• States in Medieval Britain
• [Kievan Rus]?
• Khazar Empire
• Byzantine Empire
• Frankish Kingdom
• Holy Roman Empire
• Ottoman Empire
• [Republic of Venice]?
• Hanseatic League -- neither a country nor an empire

Modern

• [Austro-Hungarian Empire]?
• Burma - became Myanmar
• Confederate States of America
• Czechoslovakia
• Fiume? (under occupation by Gabrielle D'Annunzio)
• [French Equatorial Africa]?
• German Democratic Republic - (DDR)
• German Empire
• [German South West Africa]? - became Namibia
• Java
• Kalat
• Ottoman Empire
• Persia
• [Portuguese India]?
• Prussia
• Republic of Texas
• Rhodesia, [South Rhodesia]? - became Zimbabwe
• Ceylon? - became Sri Lanka
• [Tannu Tuva]?
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(USSR)
• Tanganyika?
• Zanzibar
• Zaire
• [Democratic Republic of Germany]?
• Biafra?
• Katanga
• Tibet?
• [United Arab Republic]?
• [Naples Kingdom]?
• [Upper Volta]? - became Burkina Faso

see also Lost cities