| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Aachen |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Aa·chen |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  ä k n, ä n |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also Aix-la-Cha·pelle ( ks lä-sh-p l, ks-) |
| 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: 246,671.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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