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| | Germany The Carolingian Dynasty, 752-911 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ... |
 | | Charlemagne, founder of an empire that was Roman, Christian, and Germanic, was crowned emperor in Rome by the pope in 800. |
 | | The Carolingian Empire was based on an alliance between the emperor, who was a temporal ruler supported by a military retinue, and the pope of the Roman Catholic Church, who granted spiritual sanction to the imperial mission. |
 | | The duchies were strengthened when the Carolingian line died out in 911; subsequent kings would have no direct blood link to the throne with which to legitimate their claims to power against the territorial dukes. |
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