Press Photo Painting of Charlemagne conquering Lombardy in Italy in 774
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Description
Invading Italy in 774, Charlemagne conquered Lombardy. He established the Holy Roman Empire and is shown in this old painting receiving the imperial crown from Pope Leo III. Italy was merely an outlying province of the new empire.
