Carolingian Empire

The Carolingian Empire (800–888) was a large Frankish-dominated empire in western and central Europe during the Early Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty, which had ruled as kings of the Franks since 751 and as kings of the Lombards in Italy from 774. In 800, the Frankish king Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III in an effort to transfer the Roman Empire from Byzantine Empire to Europe. The Carolingian Empire is considered the first phase in the history of the Holy Roman Empire.

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Capital: enMetz, Aachen
Capital: Aachen; Metz
Caption: enCarolingian successor state of Middle Francia was divided into three kingdoms in 855.; enCarolingian successor states in 870 after the Treaty of Mersen, which divided Lotharingia between East Francia and West Francia.; enDivision of Charlemagne's empire in three kingdoms ruled by his grandsons; enWhen Charles of Provence died in 863, his kingdom was partitioned between Lotharingia and Louis the II's Empire.
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Comment: enThe Carolingian Empire (800–888) was a large Frankish-dominated empire in western and central Europe during the Early Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty, which had ruled as kings of the Franks since 751 and as kings of the Lombards in Italy from 774. In 800, the Frankish king Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III in an effort to transfer the Roman Empire from Byzantine Empire to Europe. The Carolingian Empire is considered the first phase in the history of the Holy Roman Empire.
CommonLanguages: enRomance languages, Germanic languages, Basque; Breton language; Latin; Slavic languages
CommonName: enCarolingian Empire
ConventionalLongName: enCarolingian Empire
Currency: Denarius
Currency: Denarius
DateEvent: 843
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Era: Middle Ages
Event: enDivision after Treaty of Verdun
EventEnd: enDeath of Charles the Fat
EventStart: enCoronation of Charlemagne
GovernmentType: Empire
Government type: Empire
Has abstract: enThe Carolingian Empire (800–888) was a large Frankish-dominated empire in western and central Europe during the Early Middle Ages. It was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty, which had ruled as kings of the Franks since 751 and as kings of the Lombards in Italy from 774. In 800, the Frankish king Charlemagne was crowned emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III in an effort to transfer the Roman Empire from Byzantine Empire to Europe. The Carolingian Empire is considered the first phase in the history of the Holy Roman Empire. After a civil war (840–843) following the death of Emperor Louis the Pious, the empire was divided into autonomous kingdoms, with one king still recognised as emperor, but with little authority outside his own kingdom. The unity of the empire and the hereditary right of the Carolingians continued to be acknowledged. In 884, Charles the Fat reunited all the Carolingian kingdoms for the last time, but he died in 888 and the empire immediately split up. With the only remaining legitimate male of the dynasty a child, the nobility elected regional kings from outside the dynasty or, in the case of the eastern kingdom, an illegitimate Carolingian. The illegitimate line continued to rule in the east until 911, while in the western kingdom the legitimate Carolingian dynasty was restored in 898 and ruled until 987 with an interruption from 922 to 936. The size of the empire at its inception was around 1,112,000 square kilometres (429,000 sq mi), with a population of between 10 and 20 million people. Its heartland was Francia, the land between the Loire and the Rhine, where the realm's primary royal residence, Aachen, was located. In the south it crossed the Pyrenees and bordered the Emirate of Córdoba and, after 824, the Kingdom of Pamplona; to the north it bordered the kingdom of the Danes; to the west it had a short land border with Brittany, which was later reduced to a tributary; and to the east it had a long border with the Slavs and the Avars, who were eventually defeated and their land incorporated into the empire. In southern Italy, the Carolingians' claims to authority were disputed by the Byzantines (Greek) and the vestiges of the Lombard kingdom in the Principality of Benevento. In its day, it was known by various Latin names; the term "Carolingian Empire" arose later.
Header: enExpansion of the Franks; enPartitions of the Carolingian Empire
Hypernym: Stage
Image: enCarolingian empire 843.pdf; enCarolingian empire 855.pdf; enCarolingian empire 863.pdf; enCarolingian empire 870.pdf; enFrankish Empire 481 to 814-en.svg; enFranks expansion.gif
ImageMap: enFrancia 814.svg
ImageMapCaption: enThe Carolingian Empire at its greatest extent in 814
Is primary topic of: Carolingian Empire
Label: enCarolingian Empire
Leader: Charlemagne
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S: enEast Francia; enMiddle Francia; enWest Francia
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SeeAlso: Carolingians; List of Frankish kings; Royal household under the Merovingians
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