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1 day ago · Part of the Holy Roman Empire. The German kings and emperors ruled the Netherlands in the 10th and 11th century, with the assistance of the Dukes of Lotharingia, and the bishops of Utrecht and Liège. Germany was called the Holy Roman Empire after the coronation of King Otto the Great as emperor.
21 hours ago · Germany. / 52.517°N 13.383°E / 52.517; 13.383. Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in the western region of Central Europe. It is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia [g] and the most populous member state of the European Union.
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21 hours ago · History of Denmark. Prehistoric Denmark c. 6000 BC–700 AD. Kongemose culture c. 6000 BC–5200 BC. Ertebølle culture c. 5,300 BC – 3,950 BC. Funnelbeaker culture c. c. 4300–2800 BC. Corded Ware culture c. 3000 BC – 2350 BC. Nordic Bronze Age c. 2000/1750–500 BC. Pre-Roman Iron Age c. 5th/4th–1st centuries BC.
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- Part of the North Sea Empire (1013–1035), Independent state until 1397
4 days ago · The state was a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire and subject to the Pope’s authority in Rome but mostly chartered its own course. The prince-bishopric emerged around 980 when the bishop of Liège, Notger (or Notker) seized the counties of Hoei and Bruningerode, thus merging his episcopal duties with those of a worldly prince.
3 days ago · St. Henry II. On July 13, the Catholic Church celebrates the memory of St. Henry II, a German king who led and defended Europe's Holy Roman Empire at the beginning of the first millennium. St ...
5 days ago · The church was one of the first built to celebrate the Virgin Mary, and it houses a reliquary said to contain wood from the Holy Crib of the Nativity of Jesus. (photo: Bénédicte Cedergren) Praying at the tombs and places of martyrdom of the saints and martyrs of the early Church throughout Rome truly ‘brings us into a real, living ...
4 days ago · The Romans had continued conflicts after this with the northern inhabitants of Britain, the Scots and the Picts. The first mention made of the former infesting this island, is in the year 360. (fn. 26) They landed first from Ireland, as the Picts had done before from Scandinavia.