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The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who
Charlemagne , King of the Franks and Lombards and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, receiving monk Alcuin . Painting by Jean-Victor Schnetz . Paris, Musée Du Louvre
A map in German of central Europe during the time of the Hohenstaufen Emperors, primarily showing the territories of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily. The map is a vectorised version...
A series of Emperors ruled central Europe for 800 years. The Holy Roman Empire is often overlooked – but its claim as the inheritor of Rome has merit.
Het Heilige Roomse Rijk was ‘Rooms’ omdat het in naam de opvolger was van het Romeinse Rijk. ‘Heilig’ was het om de band tussen keizer en katholieke kerk te benadrukken. Het gaf extra uitstraling…
Holy Roman Empire - Holy Roman Empire - Charlemagne, Coronation, Empire: By comparison with Adrian, Pope Leo III (795–816) was a man of inferior calibre. Where Adrian had tried to maintain independence by balancing the Byzantine emperor against the Frankish king, Leo from the first showed subservience to the latter. Both in Constantinople and in Rome the situation was unstable. In Constantinople, after troubles reaching back to 790, the empress Irene had her son Constantine VI blinded and deposed in 797 and took his place, the first woman to rule the empire in her own right. Her constitutional position was thus doubtful; Alcuin in the West, in 799, regarded the imperial
In 1147 Pope Eugenius III declared a crusade against the pagans of the Eastern Baltic, the first papal call to holy war not explicitly aimed at reclaiming Christian territories from Muslim rule. In…
Charlemagne, 747-814 AD. Portrait after Albrecht Durer, c 1600. Notice the crown. Hapsburg Treasury, Vienna Austria. These places are uniformly dark, but I was pleased with the quality I got with ISO at 6400. More about the beauty of this classsic city and the challenges of photography on tour. jeffnewcomerphotography.blogspot.com/2011/09/prague-tp-bu...
The Kingdom of West Francia (843-987 CE, also known as The Kingdom of the West Franks) was the region of Western Europe that formed the western part of the Carolingian Empire of Charlemagne (Holy Roman...
British history posts by authors of British historical fiction.
