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My name is Norbert Graf and I was born in 1950. I am an economist and working for a well known insurance company.
My city is Aachen in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westfalia, near the border to Belgium and the Netherlands.
Aachen has a population of 250,000. The mineral spas have operated since Roman times.
Aachen is the site of an important engineering school (Technische Hochschule Aachen).
Aachen was Charlemagne's northern capital and the center of Carolingian civilization.
The German kings from Otto I (936) to Ferdinand I (1531) were crowned here.
Aachen remained a free imperial city until occupied by France in 1794.
In 1815 it passed to Prussia by an act of the Congress of Vienna.
It was occupied by the Allies after World War I until 1930 and was heavily damaged during World War II.
Aachen's octagonal cathedral, which Charlemagne founded and which contains his tomb, was modeled after the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.

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The Aachen octagonal cathedral

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