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The word "'''pax'''" together with the [[Latin (language)|Latin]] name of an empire or nation is used to refer to a period of [[peace]] or at least stability, enforced by a [[Hegemony|hegemon]], a so-called [[Pax imperia]] ("Imperial peace").

The following is a list of periods of regional peace, sorted by alphabetical order. The corresponding hegemon is stated in parentheses.

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# * ''[[Pax Americana]]'' (United States)
# * ''[[Pax Assyriaca]]'' (Neo-Assyrian Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Britannica]]'' (British Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Europaea]]'' (European Union)
# * ''[[Pax Gupta]]'' (Gupta Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Hispanica]]'' (Spanish Empire)
# * ''[[History of the Incas|Pax Incaica]]'' (Inca Empire, especially under [[Huayna Capac]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/inca/empire.html|title = NOVA &#124; the Great Inca Rebellion &#124; Rise of the Inca &#124; PBS|website = [[PBS]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/41346-the-incas-history-of-andean-empire.html|title = The Inca Empire|website = [[Live Science]]|date = 5 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4144244|jstor=4144244|title=Constructing a Peaceful Imperialism: Manipulating Gender Identity in the Comentarios reales de los Incas|last1=Heid|first1=Patricia|journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal|year=2002|volume=33|issue=1|pages=93–108|doi=10.2307/4144244}}</ref><ref>https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/154388/Novoa_Thesis_(Revised).pdf?sequence=1 {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
# * ''[[Pax Khazarica]]'' (Khazar Khaganate)
# * ''[[Pax Kushana]]'' (Kushan Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Mongolica]]／Pax Tatarica'' (Mongol Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Ottomana]]'' (Ottoman Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Praetoriana]]'' (South Africa)
# * ''[[Pax Romana]]'' (Roman Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Sinica]]'' (China)
# * ''[[Pax Sovietica]]'' (Soviet Union)
# * ''[[Pax Sumerica]]'' (Neo-Sumerian Empire)
# * ''[[Pax Syriana]]'' (Syrian Arab Republic)
# * ''[[Pax Tokugawa]]'' (Tokugawa Shogunate)
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== See also==
* [[Regional hegemony]]
* {{section link|Peace#Long periods}}
* [[Pacification (disambiguation)|Pacification]]

== References ==
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