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On August 10, 843, three grandsons of Charlemagne signed the Treaty of Verdun to end a brutal civil war over the Carolingian Empire. The agreement carved up the realm into three kingdoms—essentially drawing the map of medieval Europe. It mattered because it established a pattern: empires fracture, kingdoms multiply, and borders shift.
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The Treaty of Verdun, agreed to on 10 August 843, ended the Carolingian civil war and divided the Carolingian Empire between Lothair I, Louis II and Charles II, the surviving sons of the emperor Louis I. The treaty was the culmination of negotiations lasting more than a year. It was the first in a series of partitions contributing to the dissolution of the empire created by Charlemagne and has been seen as foreshadowing the formation of many of the modern countries of western Europe.
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