Despite the Byzantines in the east, the Pope in the south and warlords everywhere, it was the ambition of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great (742-814), to unite much of Western Europe. The ‘founder of Europe’ and Emperor of the West, this legendary Frankish king used military tactics to expand Europe as we know it. He realigned modern Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, the Netherlands, northern Italy and Spain.
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