About: Russian Empire (Twilight of a New Era)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia was and still is the largest country in the world, extending from the Arctic Ocean to the north to the Black Sea on the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. With 176.4 million subjects, it had the third largest population of the world at the time, after Qing China and the British Empire. It represented a great disparity in economic, ethnic, and religious positions. Its government, ruled by the Czar (Emperor), was one of the last absolute monarchies left in Europe. Prior to the outbreak of World War I in May 1915 Russia was one of the five major Great Powers of Europe.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Russian Empire (Twilight of a New Era)
rdfs:comment
  • At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia was and still is the largest country in the world, extending from the Arctic Ocean to the north to the Black Sea on the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. With 176.4 million subjects, it had the third largest population of the world at the time, after Qing China and the British Empire. It represented a great disparity in economic, ethnic, and religious positions. Its government, ruled by the Czar (Emperor), was one of the last absolute monarchies left in Europe. Prior to the outbreak of World War I in May 1915 Russia was one of the five major Great Powers of Europe.
dcterms:subject
religion other
  • Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Islam, Old Believers, Buddhism and Paganism
CoGtitle
  • Chairman of the Council of Ministers
name short
  • Russian Empire
est date
  • 1721(xsd:integer)
HoStitle
  • Emperor of All Russia
dbkwik:alt-history...iPageUsesTemplate
dbkwik:althistory/...iPageUsesTemplate
CoA
  • Coat_of_Arms_of_Russian_Empire.svg
Timeline
  • Twilight of a New Era
Name en
  • Russian Empire
Name
  • Rossiyskaya Imperiya
  • Pоссийская Империя
regime
  • Absolute monarchy , Constitutional monarchy
royal house
  • Romanov
Language
  • Russian
Currency
  • Ruble
Population
  • 181537800(xsd:integer)
Religion
  • Russian Orthodox
Area
  • 2.1799825E7
Demonym
  • Russians
language other
  • Finnish, Swedish and Polish
otl
  • Russian Empire
Capital
  • Moscow
  • Saint Petersburg
Anthem
  • God Save the Tsar!
Flag
  • Flag of Russia.svg
abstract
  • At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia was and still is the largest country in the world, extending from the Arctic Ocean to the north to the Black Sea on the south, from the Baltic Sea on the west to the Pacific Ocean on the east. With 176.4 million subjects, it had the third largest population of the world at the time, after Qing China and the British Empire. It represented a great disparity in economic, ethnic, and religious positions. Its government, ruled by the Czar (Emperor), was one of the last absolute monarchies left in Europe. Prior to the outbreak of World War I in May 1915 Russia was one of the five major Great Powers of Europe. After the Russian Revolution of 1918 the Russian Empire was broken up into * Russia * Belarus (Byelorussia) * Ukraine * Georgia * Azerbaijan * Armenia * Finland * Estonia * Latvia * Lithuania * Turkestan * parts of Vistula annexed to Poland * Bessarabia, for a short time an independent republic before voting to unite with the Kingdom of Romania.
is ind from of
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software