On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish king Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Rome after being assaulted and ...
Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7 th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia a century later, new tests reveal ...
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