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Koln

noun

A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League. Synonym: Cologne.

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... serf-colonists on the left bank of the Rhine; others (the Salian Franks) appropriated to themselves a large part of Batavia, the marsh country at the mouths of the Scheldt and Rhine; a third group (the Ripuarians) occupied the lands between the Rhine and the Meuse, in the neighbourhood of Koln and Bonn. The Salians and Ripuarians counted as allies (foederati) of the Empire, at least from the time of Aetius; under whom, like the Visigoths, they fought against the Huns at Troyes (451). Their aggressions were checked on the West by the Roman ...

— Medieval Europe • H. W. C. Davis

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Words linked to "Koln" : Germany, urban center, Deutschland, metropolis, city, Hanseatic League, Federal Republic of Germany, cologne, FRG