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In Rome on Christmas Day, Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne "Emperor of the Romans," an attempt to signal the birth of a Christian Empire (the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire) to rival the Muslim and Byzantine Empires and to equal ancient Rome in its power and glory.
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