Place · Central Europe
Cologne
Ancient names: Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
One of the Rhineland communities that arose after the Carolingian period.
50.9407°N 6.9599°E · representative coordinate · Pleiades 108751 ↗
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In Carolingian times (Charlemagne and Louis the Pious), several Jewish merchants came over the Alps out of Italy and settled in German-Empire towns, chiefly along the Rhine. Through the eleventh century the leading northern community was Mainz; others arose at Speyer, Worms, Cologne, Regensburg and Trier.