#charlemagne — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #charlemagne, aggregated by home.social.
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Frankish cavalryman, 8th century AD (Giorgio Albertini)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2059842/frankish-cavalryman-8th-century-ad-giorgio-albertini
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Frankish warriors of Charlemagne, 8th-9th century AD
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2054203/frankish-warriors-of-charlemagne-8th-9th-century-ad
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A little #FrenchHistory as background during the riots: (edited from #Wikipedia)
Did you know that 1200 years ago as #Rome fell, the #Christian world was nearly conquered by the #Islam World?
The Carolingian Empire (800–888) was a large #Frankish-dominated empire in western and central Europe during the #EarlyMiddleAges.
In #AD800, the #Frankish king #Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome by #PopeLeoIII in an effort to transfer the #RomanEmpire from the #ByzantineEmpire to western Europe.