804 · Saxony (northern Germany) Theater
804
To break the last Saxon resistance north of the Elbe, Charlemagne resorted to mass deportation, uprooting many thousands of Saxons from their homeland and resettling them across the empire while planting Frankish and Slav settlers in their place. By 804, after thirty-two years, Saxony was finally, brutally pacified and absorbed.
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