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Otto I the Great
Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973
Adelaide of Italy
Holy Roman Empress, Catholic saint (931–999)
Battle of Lechfeld
German war victory over Hungary in August, 955
Magdeburg rights
set of town privileges first developed by Otto I (936–973) and based on the Flemish law
Holy Lance
according to the Gospel of John, lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross
Margraviate of Meissen
medieval principality in the area of the modern German state of Saxony
Eadgyth
Edith of England, also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth (, ; 910–946), a member of the House of Wessex, was the East Frankish (German) queen from 936, by her marriage to King Otto the Great.
Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire
crown worn by the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Northern March
10th-century march of East Francia
Saxon Eastern March
march
Byzantinism
Byzantinism, or Byzantism, is the political system and culture of the Byzantine Empire, and its spiritual successors the Orthodox Christian Balkan countries of Greece and Bulgaria especially, and to a lesser extent Serbia and some other Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe like Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. The term Byzantinism itself was coined in the 19th century.
Archbishopric of Magdeburg
former archdiocese of the Catholic Church
March of Zeitz
Old Salt Route
medieval trade route in northern Germany
Diploma Ottonianum
962 agreement regarding control of the Papal States
March of Genoa
medieval Italian state
Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres
10th-century German chronicle
Gembloux Abbey
Roman Catholic Diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz
lost diocese of the Roman Catholic Church
March of Merseburg
Battle on the Raxa
955 battle
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