Buda
City · c. 1000 CE · in Europe
Capital of Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1526), Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (1529–1541).
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- Founding of the Holy Roman Empire (962 CE): Pope John XII crowned Otto I emperor in Rome, the conventional start of the Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806.
- Christianization of Kievan Rus' (988 CE): Vladimir the Great adopted Orthodox Christianity from Byzantium and had the people of Kyiv baptised in the Dnieper.
- William the Conqueror (c. 1028 CE – 1087 CE): Duke of Normandy who conquered England in 1066 and became its first Norman king.
- Trier (16 BCE – 1618 CE): Capital of Electorate of Trier (1333–1618).
- Varangians to the Greeks (c. 800–1100 CE): Scandinavian traders and warriors travelled from the Baltic up the Neva and Volkhov past Novgorod, portaged to the Dnieper and sailed down past Kiev to the Black Sea and Constantinople.
- Otto the Great (912 CE – 973 CE): German king who defeated the Magyars and was crowned emperor in Rome in 962; he was buried in Magdeburg.
- Basil II (958 CE – 1025 CE): Byzantine emperor, called the Bulgar Slayer, who conquered the First Bulgarian Empire and brought Byzantium to its medieval height.
- Amalfi (c. 960 CE): Capital of Republic of Amalfi (960–1033).
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