After the fall of Rome, Charlemagne, also called Charles I or Charles the Great, from 768 as king of the Franks founded the first empire in western Europe; the Carolingian Renaissance centered on his court at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Charlemagne, perhaps born at Aachen in 742, later made the city his northern capital.
In later 8th century, Charlemagne conquered and made Austria into a border state of the Carolingian empire.
Frankish troops of Charlemagne took Barcelona in 801.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlem... After the fall of Rome, Charlemagne, also called Charles I or Charles the Great, from 768 as king of the Franks founded the first empire in western Europe; the Carolingian Renaissance centered on his court at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Charlemagne, perhaps born at Aachen in 742, later made the city his northern capital.
In later 8th century, Charlemagne conquered and made Austria into a border state of the Carolingian empire.
Frankish troops of Charlemagne took Barcelona in 801.
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