After being conquered by the Arabs in the early 8th century, it was reconquered in 801 by Charlemagne's son Louis, who made Barcelona the seat of the Carolingian " Hispanic March " ( Marca Hispanica ), a buffer zone ruled by the Count of Barcelona.

Louis XIV of France conquered parts of Alsace and Lorraine ( 1678 – 1681 ), and had invaded and devastated the Electorate of the Palatinate ( 1688 – 1697 ) in the War of Palatinian Succession.

* 1216 – First Barons ' War: Prince Louis of France captured the city of Winchester and soon conquered over half of the Kingdom of England.

Immediately, fearing that Pepin would be stirred up to revolt by his nobles and desiring to reform his morals, Louis the Pious summoned all his forces to meet in Aquitaine in preparation of an uprising, but Louis the German garnered an army of Slav allies and conquered Swabia before the emperor could react.

Other important cities are Dole ( capital before the region was conquered by Louis XIV in the late 17th century ), Vesoul ( capital of Haute-Saône ), Arbois ( the " wine capital " of the Jura ), and Lons-le-Saunier ( capital of Jura ).

The city was conquered and the Emirate extinguished in 871, due to the efforts of Emperor Louis II and a Byzantine fleet.

As Louis had no legitimate children Ferdinand was elected as his successor in Kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary, but the Hungarian throne was contested by John Zápolya, who ruled the areas of the kingdom conquered by the Turks as an Ottoman client.

After the East Frankish Carolingians became extinct with the death of Louis the Child in 911, Lotharingia once again attached itself to West Francia, but was conquered by the German king Henry the Fowler in 925.

Louis Stanislas impregnated his wife in 1774, having conquered his aversion to Marie Joséphine.

During Philibert's reign, his first cousin Charles VIII of France died, and the next king, Louis XII of France, invaded Italy, where he conquered most of the Kingdom of Naples.

In 1204, the region was conquered by Philip II and an enormous castle was built during the minority of his grandson, Louis IX (" Saint Louis ") in the early part of the 13th century.

Dole was the capital until the region was conquered by Louis XIV and it was moved to Besançon.

After the French conquered Waalo, governor Louis Faidherbe annexed Cayor in 1868, but Cayor got its independence restored in 1871.

Waalo was conquered in 1855 by the French, in a campaign of Governor Louis Faidherbe.

The Pico family would reign as dukes until Mirandola, an ally of Louis XIV of France, was conquered by his rival, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1708 and annexed to Modena by Duke Rinaldo d ' Este, the exiled male line becoming extinct in 1747.

On 25 March 1678 Ypres was conquered by the forces of Louis XIV of France.

In 1667, Ath was conquered in a single day by the army of Louis XIV and became the first French city in the Spanish Netherlands.

Next he and Louis Botha led the South African army into German South West Africa and conquered it ( see the South-West Africa Campaign for details ).

The city was finally conquered by France under King Louis XIV in 1673 and officially ceded by the 1679 Treaties of Nijmegen.

In 1376 the Navarrese Company Louis of Évreux, Duke of Durazzo who had gained the rights on the Kingdom of Albania from his second wife, attacked and conquered the city, but in 1383, Karl Topia took once again control of the city.

The son of Ferdinand and Isabelle, known as James the Unfortunate, was proclaimed prince of the Morea in 1315 under the regency of his father, who conquered the principality between 1315 and 1316 but was defeated and executed by Louis of Burgundy and Matilda in 1316.

The " king who conquered Syria " is a mocking reference to Louis, who was still in Syria ( 1254 ) when Bernart was writing, probably in hopes that the English and Aragonese kings would take advantage of the French monarch's absence.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

Bordeaux adhered to the Fronde, being effectively annexed to the Kingdom of France only in 1653, when the army of Louis XIV entered the city.

The city is located about north of St. Louis, Missouri, and southeast of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Multrees Walk, adjacent to the St. James Centre, is a recent addition to the city centre, hosting brands such as Louis Vuitton, Emporio Armani, Mulberry and Calvin Klein, with Harvey Nichols anchoring the development.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Eureka is a city located in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, between St. Louis and Pacific, Missouri, along Interstate 44.

Louis and Eleanor stayed in the Philopation palace, just outside the city walls.

* 1764 – The city of St. Louis, Missouri is established.

In 1711 the city of Cap-Français was formerly established by Louis XIV and took over as capital of the colony from Port-de-Paix.

At the time, the city of Fenton was at the then-rural southwest rim of St. Louis county.

* Joliet, Illinois, United States, a city named after Louis Jolliet

For the next four years Louis resided in Acre, and helped refortify that city along with Caesarea, Jaffa, and Sidon.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

Upon his departure from the Middle East, Louis left a significant garrison in the city of Acre for its defence against Islamic attacks.

Port-Louis, the capital city of Mauritius, as well as its cathedral are also named after St. Louis, who is the patron saint of the island.

Landau was later occupied by the French from 1680 to 1815, when it was one of the Décapole, the ten free cities of Alsace, and received its modern fortifications by Louis XIV's military architect Vauban in 1688 – 99, making the little city ( population in 1789 was still only approximately 5, 000 ) one of Europe's strongest citadels.

Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis.

It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the " western-most Eastern city " and Kansas City the " eastern-most Western city ".

In June 1673, Louis XIV laid siege to the city because French battle supply lines were being threatened.