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  Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Aachen was annexed by France in 1801 and given to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna (1814–15).
The Aachen Cathedral is easily the primary attraction of the city, but there are other sights of interest in Aachen, many of which also relate to Charlemagne and his successors.
Aachen is the home of several educational institutions, most importantly the RWTH Aachen University of Technology (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule), one of the major universities for technical studies, especially for mechanical engineering.
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 Aachen: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Aachen is the site of a technical university and numerous other educational institutions.
Charlemagne, who was probably born in Aachen in 742, made the city his northern capital and the leading center of Carolingian civilization.
Aachen, the Rome of the North, was the favourite...months of the Second World War the city of Aachen was all but destroyed, first by the advancing...
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 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second was in 1748, ending the War of the Austrian Succession.
Although "Aix-la-Chapelle" is the now rarely used French name of the German city of Aachen, the name Treaties of Aachen is rarely used.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --A--
As the capital of Charlemagne's 9th century Christian empire, Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle in French) could lay brief claim to being the first post-classical administrative and cultural centre of Europe.
In all, 32 German emperors and kings have been crowned at Aix.
The city also played host to the 1818 Congress to settle the peace of Europe after Napoleon's defeat - a conference which marked the high point of the unsuccessful attempt to govern Europe by international co-operation between the great powers.
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 Art & Architecture of France - Introduction
The richness of Carolingian church interiors was equaled by the illuminated manuscripts created at the monasteries of Reims, Tours, Metz, and Paris.
The best preserved of Carolingian churches is the Chapel of Charlemagne (796-804) at Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), whose octagonal sanctuary reflects the influence on Carolingian art of the Early Christian, Byzantine, and Greco-Roman traditions.
The Aachen chapel is modeled on the octagonal Byzantine church of San Vitale (526-47) in Ravenna.
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