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    The Carolingian Empire (800–887) was a Frankish-dominated empire in Western and Central Europe during the Early Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Carolingian...
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    the Carolingian Empire and decline that would eventually lead to the evolution of the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire. The Carolingian dynasty...
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    himself as Charlemagne's and the Carolingian Empire's successor, and beginning a continuous existence of the empire for over eight centuries. From 962...
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    The Carolingian Renaissance was the first of three medieval renaissances, a period of cultural activity in the Carolingian Empire. Charlemagne's reign...
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    Francia (redirect from Empire of the Franks)
    expansion of the Frankish empire was secured by the early 9th century, and is by this point referred to as the Carolingian Empire. During the reign of the...
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    Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire) survived, but lost the Middle East and North Africa to Muslim conquerors in the 7th century. Although the Carolingian dynasty...
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    Charlemagne's empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911. It was created through the Treaty of Verdun (843) which divided the former empire into three...
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  • artistic endeavours. Christianity was the principal religion of the Carolingian Empire. Through military conquests and missionary activity, Latin Christendom...
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    Empire between approximately 800 and 1200. Codices, pagan[citation needed] and Christian texts, and educational material were written in Carolingian minuscule...
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    the Carolingian Empire (9th century) and the Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806. Separately from claims of continuation, the view that the Empire had...
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    The Carolingian monetary system, also called the Carolingian coinage system or just the Carolingian system, was a currency structure introduced by Charlemagne...
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    of Emperor was revived in Western Europe with Charlemagne, whose Carolingian Empire greatly affected later European social structure and history. Europe...
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  • Charlemagne. Carolingian has been applied to: Carolingian Empire, founded by Charlemagne. Carolingian Renaissance, a cultural revival in Europe Carolingian art...
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  • tribes and northern Gallo-Romans in the 5th century. It includes the Carolingian Empire (c. 800–888) and its three successor states: West Francia (843–987)...
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    Charlemagne (category Carolingian dynasty)
    of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. He united most...
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  • Frankish kings. From 840, following the death of Louis the Pious, the Carolingian Empire was repeatedly divided and redivided by Charlemagne's descendants...
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    the establishment of West Francia, during the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire in the 800s. The kings used the title "King of the Franks" (Latin:...
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    rapprochements and combined military operations between the Frankish Carolingian Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate. The alliance is likely to have formed first...
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    Carolingian art comes from the Frankish Empire in the period of roughly 120 years from about 780 to 900—during the reign of Charlemagne and his immediate...
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    Aquitanian duchy of Waiofar, going on to become a sub-kingdom within the Carolingian Empire. It was then absorbed by West Francia after the partition of Verdun...
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    Lotharingia was a medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire. It comprised present-day Lorraine (France), Luxembourg, Saarland (Germany), Netherlands...
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    sometimes called the Younger, was the king of Italy and emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which...
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    regnum Neustriae, a constituent subkingdom of the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia. The Carolingian kings also created a March of Neustria which was...
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    inherited the entire Carolingian Empire and all its possessions (with the sole exception of the kingdom of Italy; although within Louis's empire, in 813 Charlemagne...
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    the transition from the Frankish Empire to the Holy Roman Empire. Under the Ottonians, much of the former Carolingian kingdom of Eastern Francia fell within...
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    as Charles the Fat, was the emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 881 to 887. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, Charles was the youngest son of Louis...
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    A new duchy was created from this area during the decline of the Carolingian Empire in the late ninth century. It became one of the stem duchies of the...
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    the partitions, divisions, civil wars, and succession crises of the Carolingian Empire of which it became a part until, by the end of the ninth century,...
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    Saracen (redirect from Saracen Empire)
    and 876. In the western Mediterranean, due to the weakening of the Carolingian Empire and its fleet, Marseille was raided in 838 and 846, Arles in 842 and...
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    continent and subcontinent. The continental territory of the historical Carolingian Empire was one of the many old cultural concepts used for mainland Europe...
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