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Bookmark or Share- Franks - WikipediaThe Franks (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum; German: Franken; French: Francs) were a group of several related Germanic peoples who originally inhabited regions just outside the Roman Empire, near the northernmost stretches of the fortified Rhine border (Limes).
- Francia - WikipediaThe Kingdom of the Franks (Latin: Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Latin: Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
- Franks - World History EncyclopediaThere are several different accounts of the origins of the Franks. The 6th-century historian Gregory of Tours states that they originated in Pannonia and migrated to the Rhineland before moving on to settle in Thuringia and Belgium.
- Frank | People, Definition, & Maps | BritannicaFrank, member of a Germanic -speaking people who invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Dominating present-day northern France, Belgium, and western Germany, the Franks established the most powerful Christian kingdom of early medieval western Europe. The name France (Francia) is derived from their name.
- Frankish language - WikipediaThe term Frankish or Franconian (Standard High German: Fränkisch, Dutch: Frankisch) is a modern linguistic category first introduced by the German linguist Wilhelm Braune (1850–1926) to designate historical West Germanic texts which he could not readily classify as belonging to either Low Saxon, Alemannic or Bavarian. [23]
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