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Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ478398 ↗
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There were three Treaties of Aix-la-Chapelle. Although "Aix-la-Chapelle", the French name of the German city of Aachen, is an exonym now rarely used in English, the name Treaty of Aachen is rarely used.

Pax Nicephori, also sometimes called Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle of 812, Byzantine recognition of the Carolingian empire

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668), ending the War of Devolution

Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), ending the War of the Austrian Succession

Treaty of Aachen (2019) (a.k.a.

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