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Charlemagne is crowned Emperor in Rome

800 CE · Italy, Europe · Politics

Charlemagne is crowned Emperor in Rome
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Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800. He united most of Western and Central Europe and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier.

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