Daula
| sarauta | |
| Bayanai | |
| Ƙaramin ɓangare na | realm (en) |
| Shugaban ƙasa | emperor (en) |
| Karatun ta | Imperial history (en) |
| Described at URL (en) | whosonfirst.org… |
| Nada jerin | list of empires (en) |

Daular mulki, yanki ne wanda sarki ko sarauniya ke sarrafawa kuma ana raba shi tsakanin cibiyar da ke da iko da ƙananan yankuna.[1] A cikin daula, al'ummomi daban-daban na iya samun dama daban-daban, kuma ana iya sarrafa su ko mulkarsu ta hanya daban.[2] Kalmar "empire (daula)" ta samo asali ne daga ra'ayin Roman na imperium . A takaice, daular ƙasa ce mai cin gashin kanta wacce shugaba ke amfani da taken "sarki sarakuna" ko "sarkin sarauta"; amma ba duk jihohin da ke da iyaka a ƙarƙashin mulkin manyan hukumomi ba ne ake kira "masarauta" ko kuma sarki ne ke mulki; kuma ba duk daular da suka bayyana kansu da aka karɓa a matsayin haka ta zamani da masana tarihi (Daular Afirka ta Tsakiya ta 1976 zuwa 1979, kuma wasu masarautun Anglo-Saxon a farkon Ingila a matsayin misalai).
Akwai "tsofaffi da na zamani, masu dogaro da marasa dogaro, masu tsattsauran ra'ayi da kuma masu kyau".[1] muhimmin bambanci ya kasance tsakanin daular ƙasa da suka ƙunshi yankuna masu iyaka, kamar Daular Romawa, Daular Achaemenid, Daular Mongol, ko Daular Rasha; da waɗanda - Masu ƙarfin teku - waɗanda suka haɗa da yankunan da ke nesa da ƙasar 'gida' na daular, kamar Daula ta Dutch, Daular Japan, Daular Chola ko Daular Burtaniya. [1]
Kalmar "daula" na iya nufin babban kamfani na kasuwanci (misali kamfani na kasa da kasa), ko kuma ma ƙungiyar siyasa da mutum ɗaya ke jagoranta (shugaban siyasa) ko rukuni (shugabannin Siyasa) ke sarrafawa. [3] Sau da yawa ana amfani da kalmar"Daula" a matsayin kalma don bayyana yanayin da ke haddasa karfin da ya wuce Misali[1]