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Aachen
(ä′kən; Ger ä′khən)
city in North Rhine-Westphalia, W Germany, on the Belgian border: pop. 246,000
See Aachen in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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.
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