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On Christmas Day, Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne "Emperor of the Romans," a conscious attempt to signal the birth of a Christian Empire (the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire) to rival the expanding Muslim Empire and to equal ancient Rome in its power and glory. At about this time Charlemagne sends an ambassador to the court of Abbasid khalifah (caliph) Harun al-Rashid. The Byzantine Empire refuses to recognize the new western empire.
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