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Charlemagne has 4,500 Saxon hostages beheaded at Verdun; around 785 he issues the "Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae" (Ordinance for the Saxon Regions), intended to force the Saxons to accept Frankish rule and convert to Christianity.
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