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    Corton-Charlemagne is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) and Grand Cru vineyard for white wine in the Côte de Beaune subregion of Burgundy. It is...
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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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    became the symbol of Aachen". Route Charlemagne Aachen. "Kaiser Karl Brunnen in Aachen". Denkmalplatz. 24 March 2020. "Der Karlsbrunnen". aachen.de....
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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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    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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    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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    Ruolandes liet and the Latin Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis. Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne or Voyage de Charlemagne à Jérusalem et à Constantinople dealing...
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    now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St. James, a leading Catholic pilgrimage route since the 9th century. In 1985...
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    Aachen (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    D'Eginhard; Vie de Charlemagne. Des Faits Et Gestes de Charlemagne [Annals of Eginhard Life of Charlemagne. Facts and gestures of Charlemagne] (in French)...
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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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    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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    Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-02-02. Charlemagne Tower (1894). The Marquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution. J.B. Lippincott...
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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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    conquest due to military campaigns led by the lord king and emperor Charlemagne beginning in 772 and ending around 804, the Franks defeated the Saxons...
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    Henri. Mohammed and Charlemagne (1937) Pirenne, Henri. "Reflexions d'un Solitaire". (edited by Jacques-Henri Pirenne) in Bulletin de la Commission royale...
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    and the whole of the Islands. The Islands were defended by the emperor Charlemagne in 799 from a Muslim pirate incursion. In 848 (maybe 849), four years...
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    and grand thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean...
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    of fees. By this feat he may have impeded Charlemagne from using Reric as part of a strategic trade route. The merchants were forced to follow the Viking...
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    de Beaune on the N74 Route des Grand Crus. It has 160.1ha of vineyards, including another piece of Corton-Charlemagne. Like Vougeot with the Clos de Vougeot...
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    the Archaeological Crypt of the Île de la Cité [fr] and Charlemagne et ses Leudes, an equestrian statue of Charlemagne. Historically, the square has been...
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    city of Lyon, a stop for many long-distance trains departing here, most en route to the South of France. The station is served by high-speed TGV trains to...
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    continuous campaigns of Pepin of Herstal, Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne, and Louis the Pious—father, son, grandson, great-grandson and great-great-grandson—the...
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    Division Charlemagne. Stroud: Spellmont. ISBN 978-1-86227-293-4. OCLC 63186910. Vézinet, Adolphe (1974). Le Général Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Maréchal de France...
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    affirms that the church had been founded by Charlemagne. Briois, Clément Jules (1864). La Tour Saint-Jacques de Paris, Volume 1. Paris: Debuisson & Cie....
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    The Château de Malmaison (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto d(ə) malmɛzɔ̃]) is a French château situated near the left bank of the Seine, about 15 kilometres...
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    Holy Roman Empire (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Napoleonic Wars. On 25 December 800, Pope Leo III crowned Frankish king Charlemagne as Roman emperor, reviving the title in Western Europe more than three...
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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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    parvis of Notre-Dame de Paris, seen from the cathedral tower Vestiges of Gallo-Roman baths under the parvis (4th c.) Statue of Charlemagne by the Parvis of...
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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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  • Garin de Monglane. One of its main characters is William of Gellone. The cycle of Guillaume has more unity than the other great cycles of Charlemagne or...
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