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Aachen

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Aa·chen  (äkn, än) also Aix-la-Cha·pelle (kslä-sh-pl, ks-)
A city of western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch borders. Charlemagne may have been born here in 742; he later made the city his northern capital. Population: 259,000.
Aachen [ˈɑːkən (German) ˈaːxən]
n
(Placename) a city and spa in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: the northern capital of Charlemagne's empire. Pop.: 243 600 (1999 est.) French name Aix-la-Chapelle
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Noun1.AachenAachen - a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
Aix-la-Chapelle, Aken
Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990
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Aachen [ˈɑːxən] N → Aquisgrán m


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