Chalke Talk

The podcast from the Chalke Valley History Festival
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Chalke Talks for SPEAKER: Simon Winder


  • 189. LOTHARINGIA: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF EUROPE’S LOST COUNTRY
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    In 843 AD the territory of Emperor Charlemagne was divided between his three surviving grandsons. One inherited the area now known as France, another Germany and the third received the piece in between: Lotharingia, a huge swath of land that stretched from the mouth of the Rhine to the Alps. Simon Winder explains how the […]

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