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Populated places established in the 9th century

  • HamburgCharlemagne ordered the construction of a fortress called Hammaburg in 808. This structure rose on rocky terrain between the River Alster and the River Elbe…
  • PragueThe name Prague emerges from the Czech word pražiti, meaning to roast or burn. A 19th-century mathematician named Bernard Bolzano counted over 500 spires in…
  • MadridIn the second half of the 9th century, Umayyad Emir Muhammad I built a fortress on a headland near the river Manzanares.