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Cologne (/ k ə ˈ l oʊ n / ⓘ kə-LOHN; German: Köln ⓘ; Kölsch: Kölle ⓘ) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
In the time of Roman Late antiquity, the cultural development in northwestern Europe west of the Rhine was embodied by a network of urban settlements. Most important towns in the Rhineland were Trier, which served as imperial residence of the Western Roman Emperor from 293 to 395, and Cologne, where five Roman trunk roads intersected with the Rhine, also then used as a water transport route.
260 - Cologne becomes capital of Gallic Empire. 310 - Bridge built over Rhine. 313 - Catholic diocese of Cologne established (approximate date). [2] 451 - The Huns under Attila sack Cologne. 459 - Ripuarian Franks take power. 475 - Becomes the residence of the Frankish king Childeric I. [1] 716 - Battle of Cologne. 795 - City becomes Archbishop ...
Roman Cologne, chief city of the Ripuarian Franks. Ripuarian or Rhineland Franks (Latin: Ripuarii or Ribuarii) were one of the two main groupings of early Frankish people, and specifically it was the name eventually applied to the tribes who settled in the old Roman territory of the Ubii, with its capital at Cologne on the Rhine river in modern Germany.
Statue of Sigobert the Lame on the tower of the city town hall of Cologne Sigobert the Lame (also Sigibert or Sigebert ) (died c. 508 or 509) was a king of the Ripuarian Franks in the area of Zülpich ( Latin : Tolbiac ) and Cologne .
Cologne: 405.15 km 2: 1.019.328 2: 2.516/km 2: ... After 1815, the Kingdom of Prussia enforced the construction of fortifications which again hindered any growth for ...
The first business school in Cologne before World War I. The city of Cologne was significant to the development of the German colonial empire as a whole. During the period of New Imperialism, Cologne was one of the most important trading cities of the German Empire, and was thus the Rheinland's centre for expeditions and scientific colonialism.
The Duchy of Westphalia (German: Herzogtum Westfalen) was a historic territory in the Holy Roman Empire, which existed from 1102 to 1803.It was located in the greater region of Westphalia, originally one of the three main regions in the German stem duchy of Saxony and today part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.