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How important were 'capital cities' in the exercise of power in this period? (300-1050)
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... How important were 'capital cities' in the exercise of power in this period? (300-1050) In order to reply to this question precisely, one needs to examine further what 'capital city' actually means. Today, a city is considered the capital of a country not because it has the biggest population, and not because it is the centre of the trade world: that is so because the capital is the centre of political activity in a country. This rule applied for the Medieval World as well; for example, there is no evidence for any other settlements in Aachen during the time it was considered 'capital' of the Franks, apart from the palace and the religious buildings. However, it was exactly the religious buildings, defence systems and 'parliaments' that the capital cities in the Early Medieval World had in common. It was only a coincidence that some of the capital cities were also the
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