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Maximum extent of the empire.

The Fifth Chotarian Empire was the last, best-attested, and most powerful of the classical Chotarian empires, existing for half a millennium from 586 to 1052 CE. In the Fifth Empire period, Chotar attained the height of its territorial expansion, encompassing most of Outer Joriscia as it extended to the borderlands of the modern Lutoborsk in the north and across modern Anabbah to Petty-Lestria in the west. The empire thus left numerous legacies, and despite the great changes that would follow its collapse, many of the features of later Outer Joriscian society find early prototypes in this period, including the Chotarian slave-priesthood for the later rabtat and Scholars; and the empire's substantial corpus of regulations of individual behaviour for early zaconic law. More explicitly, Lacrean nostalgists in the 18th century and their neo-Chotarianist successors would draw primarily on images of the Fifth Empire in their reconstruction of the Lacrean state from the Chotarian Restoration of 1778 up to the dismantling of the Sixth Chotarian Empire in 1958. (→ Read on)