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    The statue of Charlemagne is a prominent public sculpture representing Charlemagne in Aachen. It was first erected in 1620 on the Marktplatz in front of...
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    are kept here. Since 2009, the city hall has been a station on the Route Charlemagne, a tour programme by which historical sights of Aachen are presented...
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    Sabre of Charlemagne, the Imperial Crown of Otto I, and the Imperial Orb. Since 2009, Aachen City Hall has been a part of the Route Charlemagne, a tour...
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    French highway Route 74. The red wine appellation of Corton covers the lower part of the hill with the areas for Corton and Corton-Charlemagne partially overlapping...
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    – 810) was an Asian elephant brought back to the Carolingian emperor Charlemagne by his diplomat Isaac the Jew. The gift was from the Abbasid caliph Harun...
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    Battle of Roncevaux Pass (category Charlemagne)
    Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the...
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  • an alternate route and attacked the defenders from the east. The route Charlemagne used is now a hiking trail known locally as the Path of the Franks...
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    The Charlemagne class consisted of three pre-dreadnought battleships built for the French Navy in the 1890s. The ships spent most of their careers assigned...
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    Song of Roland (category Cultural depictions of Charlemagne)
    help from the Frankish army. The emperor hears the call en route to Francia. Charlemagne and his noblemen gallop back even though Count Ganelon tries...
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    Le Gardeur Bridge to Charlemagne and remains a four-lane road until exiting Repentigny. This highway takes a more scenic route than the more direct Autoroute...
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    appeared in a dream to Charlemagne, urging him to liberate his tomb from the Moors and showing him the direction to follow by the route of the Milky Way.[citation...
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    Herstal, his son Charles Martel, grandson Pepin the Short, great-grandson Charlemagne, and great-great-grandson Louis the Pious— secured the greatest expansion...
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    on a series of lectures of 1922) and in his posthumous Mohammed and Charlemagne (1937), published from Pirenne's first draft. In brief, the Pirenne Thesis...
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    in 1806. On 25 December 800, Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne Roman emperor, reviving the title more than three centuries after the...
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    Saint-Eustache Boisbriand Rosemère Lorraine Bois-des-Filion Terrebonne Charlemagne Repentigny (Le Gardeur) L'Assomption List of Quebec provincial highways...
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    to the north and Spain to the south. Believed to have been created by Charlemagne, Andorra was ruled by the count of Urgell until 988, when it was transferred...
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  • Quebec Autoroute 640 (category Routes needing mileposts)
    Rivière des Mille-Îles) from Route 344 in the Oka area to Route 138, where it ends as a four-lane expressway in Charlemagne. The road was designed to be...
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    Avar Wars (category Charlemagne)
    796. Charlemagne sent Bavarian and Alamannian reinforcements to join his son's campaign. Bowlus proposes that the Bavarians followed the route that Charlemagne...
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    had accompanied Charlemagne on his campaign into the Iberian peninsula across the Western Pyrenees. Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, mentions in his...
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  • August Diehl Drama a.k.a. Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family The Charlemagne Code [de] Ralf Huettner [de] Benjamin Sadler, Bettina Zimmermann, Fabian...
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    period. In 800, the title of Emperor was revived in Western Europe with Charlemagne, whose Carolingian Empire greatly affected later European social structure...
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    The Mont Blanc was the highest mountain of the Frankish Empire under Charlemagne and the highest mountain of the Holy Roman Empire until 1792. In 1760...
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    Siege of Pavia (773–774) (category Charlemagne)
    resulted in the victory of the Franks under Charlemagne against the Lombards under King Desiderius. Charlemagne, rex Francorum, had succeeded to the throne...
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    operates 170 bus routes, two light rail lines, and a paratransit system in Ottawa and the National Capital Region. The last two digits of route numbers correspond...
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    Greater Region (2016) Impressionisms Route (2018) Via Charlemagne (2018) Liberation Route Europe (2019) European Route of Industrial Heritage (2019) Le Corbusier...
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    and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. Founded by Charlemagne in 805 as Magadoburg (probably from Old High German magado for big, mighty...
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    presents with the emissaries on their return to Charlemagne's court, including a clock that Charlemagne and his retinue deemed to be a conjuration because...
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    expeditions and raids alongside their lands. During the military campaigns of Charlemagne and his successor in the 9th-century, Pagan Slavs were captured and sold...
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    Historia Caroli Magni, a legendarium concerning Charlemagne, pseudepigraphically ascribed to Charlemagne's contemporary Turpin, Archbishop of Reims, affirms...
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    Schenefeld. Saxon Holstein became a part of the Holy Roman Empire after Charlemagne's Saxon campaigns in the late eighth century. Beginning in 811, the northern...
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