imperial
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The city hopes that the revenues from the tax will allow the former imperial capital to remain competitive with the Nordic and Swiss metropolises.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The imperial economy brings him clothes, pottery, wine, spices and books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Cole’s central image evokes the imperial grandeur of Rome before it is felled, in the next canvas, by fire, flood and barbarous invaders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, circulated daily between the imperial and provincial courts, helping knit together an empire that, at its peak, ruled much of the Indian subcontinent and nearly a quarter of the world's population.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
They were surrounded by Inka satrapies; their economy was enmeshed with the imperial machinery; they had hundreds or thousands of people doing the empire's bidding.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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