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Gero
German nobleman (c. 900 – 965) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gero I (c. 900 – 20 May 965), sometimes called the Great (Latin: magnus),[1] was a German nobleman who ruled an initially modest march centred on Merseburg in the south of the present German state of Saxony-Anhalt, which he expanded into a vast territory named after him: the marca Geronis.[2][3] During the mid-10th century, he was the leader of the Saxon Ostsiedlung.
For other uses, see Gero (disambiguation).
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