It is just that the city's name has been simplified to the easier-to-pronounce identity of the empire that first built it: Mexico City.
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If the book whets your curiosity about Scottish history, read John Prebble's Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire, first published in 1968 and recently reissued in paperback.
Having thrown off the tyranny of the British Empire, the first Americans were understandably skeptical of government.
The region was absorbed by an expanding Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century.
It does however provide an incomparable insight into life and justice during King Hammurabi's reign (1792-1750BC) as first ruler of the Babylonian Empire.
The unraveling of the Sapir real estate empire seemed at first glance like the now all-too-common real estate bloom and doom of recent years.
In 1822, Dom Pedro, founder of the Brazilian Empire was crowned as first emperor of Brazil and ruled as Pedro I.
Skanska provides a detailed case study of how they were able to retrofit their New York City headquarters in the Empire State Building and first commercial building in Scandinavia to achieve LEED Platinum precertification.
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Ashoka, who ruled the Mauryan empire, India's first, at its apogee in the third century before Christ, was a convert to Buddhism.
She was one of very few Muslim women to take part in the Pakistan movement and witness first hand the fall of the British empire.
The system today works in much the same way as it did when Cecil Rhodes first hatched his plans for a diamond empire a century ago.
It was when he broke into the food supplements world that his business empire really took off - first in the United States, then back in his native Mexico with the launch of his own vitamins company, Grupo Omnilife.
Reliance, the trading company that he first set up, became the flagship of his empire.
Soda pop tycoon Carlos Ardila Lulle returns to the Billionaires list for the first time since 1997, thanks to his growing empire of soft drinks and media.
The report said Mr Roche had been Shuttleworth's chief pilot between 2009 and 2010 and was a graduate of the Empire Test Pilots' School, the first organisation of its kind in the world.
In fact, argues Mr Darwin, there was, at least for its first 100 years or so, no single vision of empire, but several.
Both of our nations emerged from the British Empire, and the United States was among the first countries to recognize an independent Union of Burma.
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The highest post of the Ottoman government was only relatively safer (no executions) during the first 160 and the last 100 or so years of the empire.
The first had been in 1898, against Spain, whose remaining empire was crumbling in the face of popular revolts in two of its colonies, Cuba and the Philippines.
While New York's new governor's past peccadilloes initially dominated the headlines, David Paterson's first major position as governor couldn't be better for the Empire State's future growth: He is against raising taxes and instead wants to put the brakes on runaway spending.
But take the Empire State Building, which consistently lost money for its owners every year of its first two decades of existence.
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First, The Economist has discovered the full extent of dealings between Mr Son's private empire, Softbank and Ziff-Davis only because of the disclosure rules set by American stockmarket regulators.
Branson, who is 53 and first landed on our Billionaires list in 1992, famously parlayed his popular Virgin brand into an empire that includes airlines, retail stores, wireless services and soft drinks.
In his first few months, he will need determination to pare, sell and shut down bits of his empire, quite possibly in the face of fierce internal opposition.
Kasdan has a long association with Lucasfilm, having worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy.
Kasdan worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy while Kinberg is best known for his work on X-Men: The Last Stand and Guy Ritchie's hit reboot of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.
The first pope to resign was Pontian, in 235, when Christianity was still an illegal religion in the Roman Empire.
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