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Why does the English-speaking world refer to Charlemagne as such, instead of Charles 1 or Charles the Great? Why dont we refer to Peter the Great as Pyotr Veliky, or Frederick the Great as Friedrich der Grosse?

by /u/ExiledToTerminus in /r/AskHistorians

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