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Was the Holy Roman Empire, Holy, Roman, or an Empire? (Encore)

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The Carolingian Dynasty

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, there was a period of chaos in Europe for several centuries. A Germanic group known as the Franks began to consolidate a kingdom. The Carolingian dynasty started with Pipp in the first in 613. Charles Martell was the first European leader to stop the Islamic Moorish invasion at the Battle of Tours in 732. And his son is where the story really begins: Charlemagne.

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