Imperial
Encyclopedia
Imperial is a term that is used to describe something that relates to an empire
Empire
The term empire derives from the Latin imperium . Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a monarch or an oligarchy....

, emperor
Emperor
An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...

, or the concept of imperialism
Imperialism
Imperialism, as defined by Dictionary of Human Geography, is "the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationships, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination." The imperialism of the last 500 years,...

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Imperial may also refer to:

In the United States

  • Imperial, California
    Imperial, California
    Imperial is a city in Imperial County, California. Imperial is located north of El Centro. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 14,758. It is part of the El Centro metropolitan area. The City of Imperial is a bustling center in the Imperial Valley due to its central location in The...

  • Imperial, Missouri
    Imperial, Missouri
    Imperial is a census-designated place in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. The estimated population in 2007 was 4,747. It was 4,373 at the 2000 census. It was originally known as West Kimmswick, and is roughly 25 driving minutes south of St. Louis. St...

  • Imperial, Nebraska
    Imperial, Nebraska
    Imperial is a city in Chase County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,982 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Chase County.-History:...

  • Imperial-Enlow, Pennsylvania
    Imperial-Enlow, Pennsylvania
    Imperial-Enlow was a census-designated place in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, for the 2000 census. The population at the time was 3,514...

  • Imperial County, California
    Imperial County, California
    Imperial County is a county located in the Imperial Valley, in the far southeast of the U.S. state of California, bordering both Arizona and Mexico. It is part of the El Centro Metropolitan Area, which encompasses all of Imperial County. The population as of 2000 was 142,361. The county seat is the...

  • Imperial Valley (California)
  • Imperial Polk County (Florida)

Buildings

  • Imperial Theater (disambiguation)
    Imperial Theater (disambiguation)
    Imperial Theater or Imperial Theatre may refer to:* Imperial Theatre, New York City* Imperial Theatre, Saint John*Imperial Theatre, Hamburg* Imperial Theatre * Imperial Theater, Copenhagen...

  • Imperial Palace (disambiguation)
  • Hotel Imperial (Vienna, Austria)
  • The Imperial (disambiguation)

Organizations

  • Imperial Hotel (disambiguation)
  • Imperial Oil
    Imperial Oil
    Imperial Oil Limited is Canada's largest petroleum company. The company is engaged in the exploration, production and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It is controlled by US based ExxonMobil, which owns 69.6% of its stock...

    , a Canadian company
  • Imperial College London
    Imperial College London
    Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...

    , a prestigious UK university
  • Imperial Party, UK
  • Imperial Productions
    Imperial Productions
    Imperial Productions is a theatre company based in London, England. It was founded in 1979 by members of the Operatic Society of Imperial College Union, from which it remains completely independent....

    , a London theatre company
  • Imperial Clothing, a UK clothing brand.

Standards and types

  • Imperial units, used in the Commonwealth of Nations countries
  • Imperial staircase
    Imperial staircase
    An Imperial staircase is the name given to a staircase with divided flights. Usually the first flight rises to a half-landing and then divides into two symmetrical flights both rising with an equal number of steps and turns to the next floor. The feature is reputed to have first been used at El...

  • Imperial examination
    Imperial examination
    The Imperial examination was an examination system in Imperial China designed to select the best administrative officials for the state's bureaucracy. This system had a huge influence on both society and culture in Imperial China and was directly responsible for the creation of a class of...

    , the Civil Service examination for the Empire of China
  • Imperial purple, see: Tyrian purple
    Tyrian purple
    Tyrian purple , also known as royal purple, imperial purple or imperial dye, is a purple-red natural dye, which is extracted from sea snails, and which was possibly first produced by the ancient Phoenicians...

  • Imperial, traditional inch-based paper size
    Paper size
    Many paper size standards conventions have existed at different times and in different countries. Today there is one widespread international ISO standard and a localised standard used in North America . The paper sizes affect writing paper, stationery, cards, and some printed documents...

    , 22 x 30 inches
  • In wine bottle nomenclature, a bottle that holds 6 litres

Things

  • Boosey & Hawkes
    Boosey & Hawkes
    Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass, string and wind musical instruments....

     Imperial, family of musical instruments
  • Imperial International
    Imperial International
    Imperial International is a supplier of billiard tables and other cue sports equipment. According to their website, they stock over 10,000 items, from billiard tables to accessories.-History:...

    , a billiards product supplier.
  • Imperial (automobile)
    Imperial (automobile)
    Imperial was the Chrysler Corporation's luxury automobile brand between 1955 and 1975, with a brief reappearance in 1981 to 1983.The Imperial name had been used since 1926, but was never a separate make, just the top-of-the-line Chrysler. In 1955, the company decided to spin it off as its own make...

    , Chrysler Corporation's former luxury brand
  • Imperial Automobile Company
    Imperial Automobile Company
    The Imperial Automobile Company of Jackson, Michigan, was formed by the brothers T.A. and George N. Campbell in 1908, who also ran the Jackson Carriage Company. Imperial produced mid-size cars with four-cylinder engines; the bodywork and mechanicals were primarily off-the-shelf rather than bespoke...

    , US automaker 1908-1916
  • Imperial (board game)
    Imperial (board game)
    Imperial is a German-style board game designed by Mac Gerdts in which the object is to accumulate wealth in the form of bond holdings in successful countries and cash. Players take on the role of international financiers who purchase government bonds in the six pre-World War I empires of...

    , German-style board game by Mac Gerdts
  • Chrysler Imperial
    Chrysler Imperial
    The Chrysler Imperial, introduced in 1926, was the company's top of the range vehicle for much of its history. Models were produced with the Chrysler name until 1954, and again from 1990 to 1993. The company tried to position the cars as a prestige marque that would rival Cadillac and Lincoln...

    , Chrysler's luxury car model
  • Imperial (car)
    Imperial (car)
    This article is about the Imperial marque used by British manufacturers in the early 20th century. For the marque used by U.S. auto maker Chrysler, see Imperial .Imperial was the name used for three separate makes of British car....

    , three separate British makes of car
  • Imperial, a luggage case for the top of a Coach (carriage)
    Coach (carriage)
    A coach was originally a large, usually closed, four-wheeled carriage with two or more horses harnessed as a team, controlled by a coachman and/or one or more postilions. It had doors in the sides, with generally a front and a back seat inside and, for the driver, a small, usually elevated seat in...

  • Imperial, the top, roof or second-storey compartment of a coach or carriage, especially a stagecoach
    Stagecoach
    A stagecoach is a type of covered wagon for passengers and goods, strongly sprung and drawn by four horses, usually four-in-hand. Widely used before the introduction of railway transport, it made regular trips between stages or stations, which were places of rest provided for stagecoach travelers...

  • Imperial Margarine
    Imperial Margarine
    Imperial is a brand of margarine distributed by Unilever. It is known or best remembered for early commercials in which a person who recently ate something with the margarine would have a crown appear on their head ....

  • Imperial (beer)
    Imperial (beer)
    - Imperial :Imperial is a Costa Rican brand of beer, manufactured by the Florida Ice & Farm Company. Imperial was first produced by the Ortega brewery in 1924, and is now produced in the Cerveceria Costa Rica...

  • Imperial Records
    Imperial Records
    Imperial Records is a United States based label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd and reactivated in 2006 by label owner EMI.- The independent and Liberty Records years :...

  • Mint Imperial
    Mint (candy)
    A mint is a candy characterized by the presence of mint flavoring or real mint oil, whether it be peppermint oil, spearmint oil, or another natural or artificial source...

    , candy
  • Imperial Bösendorfer (piano)
    Imperial Bosendorfer (piano)
    The Imperial Bösendorfer is the largest model of pianos that Bösendorfer manufactures at 290 centimeters long, or 9½ feet. For 90 years, the only concert grand piano in the world with 97 keys, in 1990 it was joined in this tradition by the instruments of Stuart & Sons, Australia...

  • Imperial (album)
    Imperial (album)
    -Personnel:In Fear and Faith* Ramin Niroomand - lead guitar, keyboards, piano* Mehdi Niroomand - drums* Tyler McElhaney - bass guitar* Cody "Duke" Anderson - unclean vocals* Scott Barnes - clean vocals* Noah Slifka - rhythm guitarAdditional musicians...

     an In Fear and Faith album
  • Imperial, a style of Moustache
    Moustache
    A moustache is facial hair grown on the outer surface of the upper lip. It may or may not be accompanied by a type of beard, a facial hair style grown and cropped to cover most of the lower half of the face.-Etymology:...

  • A typewriter made by the Imperial Typewriter Company

Animals and plants

  • Imperial butterflies, see: Cheritrini
    Cheritrini
    The Cheritrini are a small tribe of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae; they contain the imperials and allies. Their closest living relatives seem to be the Horagini; indeed, the genus Ahmetia was in the past often placed there.-Genera:As not all Theclinae have been assigned to tribes, the genus...

  • Eastern Imperial Eagle
    Eastern Imperial Eagle
    The Eastern Imperial Eagle is a large species of bird of prey that breeds from southeastern Europe to central Asia. Most populations are migratory and winter in northeastern Africa, and southern and eastern Asia. The Spanish Imperial Eagle, found in Spain and Portugal, was formerly lumped with...

  • Spanish Imperial Eagle
    Spanish Imperial Eagle
    The Spanish Imperial Eagle, Iberian Imperial Eagle or Adalbert's Eagle is a threatened species of eagle that only occurs in central and south-west Spain, adjacent areas of Portugal and possibly northern Morocco, although the latter is disputed...

  • Fritillaria imperialis or Crown Imperial

Other

  • The Imperials
    The Imperials
    The Imperials are an American Christian music group that has been around for over 45 years. Originating as a southern gospel quartet, the innovative group would become pioneers of contemporary Christian music in the 1960s. There have been many changes for the band in membership and musical styles...

    , vocal group
  • The Imperial Presidency
    The Imperial Presidency
    The Imperial Presidency by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. was written in 1973.This book details the history of the Presidency of the United States from its conception by the Constitutional Founders, through the late twentieth century...

  • Little Anthony & The Imperials
    Little Anthony & The Imperials
    Little Anthony and the Imperials is a rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York, first active in the 1950s. Lead singer Jerome Anthony "Little Anthony" Gourdine was noted for his high-pitched falsetto voice, influenced by Jimmy Scott...

    , American doo-wop vocal group
  • Imperial Presidency
    Imperial Presidency
    Imperial Presidency is a term that became popular in the 1960s and that served as the title of a 1973 volume by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. to describe the modern presidency of the United States...

    , describes the presidency of the United States
  • Galactic Empire (Star Wars)
    Galactic Empire (Star Wars)
    The Galactic Empire is one of the main factions in the fictional universe of Star Wars. It is a galaxy-spanning regime established by the series' lead villain, Palpatine, to replace the Galactic Republic in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The Galactic Empire is introduced in Star Wars...

  • Imperial Remnant, Star Wars
  • Imperial Dalek, Doctor Who
  • Imperial (Elder Scrolls), a fictional race in The Elder Scrolls series of video games
  • Imperial, a card game similar to Piquet
    Piquet
    Piquet is an early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two players.- History :Piquet has long been regarded as one of the all-time great card games still being played. It was first mentioned on a written reference dating to 1535, in Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais...

  • Alf's Imperial Army
    Alf's Imperial Army
    Alf's Imperial Army, founded in 1972 , by Ian Brackenbury Channell is New Zealand's longest-running and largest pacifist warfare organisation. Organised loosely along military lines, it has Regiments in several New Zealand towns and cities...

    , an organization in New Zealand
  • Imperial, a megacorporation in Mutant Chronicles
    Mutant Chronicles
    Mutant Chronicles is a pen-and-paper role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world, originally published in 1993. It has spawned a franchise of collectible card games, miniature wargames, video games, novels, comic books, and a film of the same title based on the game world.Mutant Chronicles...

    .
  • Age of Empires
  • Imperial, a song by Primal Scream
    Primal Scream
    Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...

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