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The Saxon Wars were the military campaigns carried out by Charlemagne from 772 against the Saxons, a confederation of Germanic tribes, which inhabited in what is today northwest of modern Germany. The objective of these campaigns was to christinize the pagans, as these people were then considered, and to expand the borders of the Frankish [...]
The Saxons were a confederation of Germanic tribes. The name Sak was used in antiquity to refer to the various tribes that inhabited the land northwest of what is today Germany between the Elbe and Ems rivers, including southern Jutland. Their modern-day descendants in Lower Saxony are considered ethnic Germans. Saxons took part in the [...]
Pepin, the Middle, of Herstal was the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy. He was the grandson of Pepin the Elder. He was born in Herstal (Belgium) in 640. The nickname "Middle" comes from the fact that he was the second of three Pepins that became Mayor of Palace and who belonged to the [...]
The Franks were a confederation of West Germanic tribes that lived in the 3rd century north and east of the Lower Rhine. Under the Merovingian dynasty, they founded one of the Germanic monarchies which replaced the Western Roman Empire from the 5th century. The Frankish state consolidated its hold over large parts of western Europe [...]
In 390 BC, several Gallic tribes invaded the Italic peninsula from the north. Although the Romans were unaware of this invasion at this time, who still had local security concerns, they were alerted when a branch of the invading Gauls, the Senones, burst into the Etruscan province of Siena from the north, laying siege [...]
