The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Aix-la-Chapelle
Also known as Aachen, Aquisgranum
- city
- Carolingian
Charlemagne's favored residence and coronation city in the lower Rhineland, known in Latin as Aquisgranum and in German as Aachen. Gibbon presents it as the ceremonial capital of the Frankish revival of empire.
- Type
- city
- Style
- Carolingian
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 219
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
Charlemagne's favored residence and coronation city in the lower Rhineland, known in Latin as Aquisgranum and in German as Aachen. Gibbon presents it as the ceremonial capital of the Frankish revival of empire.
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