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Treaty of Verdun

Treaty of Verdun
The Treaty of Verdun was reached in 843 between the three surviving sons of the Carolingian emperor Louis I (the Pious), who had died in 840. The treaty ended a struggle among the brothers for possession of the Frankish empire consolidated by their grandfather Charlemagne.
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