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‘latin’ –> franci / gens francorum
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(the franks were a collection of ‘germanic peoples’ that originated in the lands between the ‘lower’ and ‘middle rhine’ in the ‘3rd century AD’ and eventually formed a large empire dominating much of ‘western’ and ‘central’ europe during the ‘middle ages’)
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(the ‘frankish empire’ ultimately led to the birth of modern ‘france’ + ‘germany’ and thus the ‘franks’ are seen as the ‘forebears’ of the ‘french’ + ‘german’ peoples (in addition to ‘austrians’, the ‘dutch’, ‘luxembourgers’, and some other ‘european nations’))
(during ‘ancient times’ some ‘franks’ raided ‘roman territory’, while other ‘frankish tribes’ joined the roman troops of ‘gaul’)
(the ‘salian franks’ lived on roman-held soil between the ‘rhine’, ‘scheldt’, ‘meuse’, and ‘somme’ rivers in what is now ‘northern france’, ‘belgium’, and the central and southern part of the ‘netherlands’)
(the kingdom was acknowledged by the ‘romans’ after ‘357 AD’)
(following the collapse of ‘rome’ in the ‘west’, the ‘frankish tribes’ were united under the ‘merovingians’, who succeeded in conquering most of ‘gaul’ in the 500s, which greatly increased their power)
(the ‘merovingian dynasty’ (descendants of the ‘salians’) founded one of the ‘french monarchies’ that would absorb large parts of the ‘western roman empire’)
(the ‘frankish state’ consolidated its hold over the majority of ‘western europe’ by the end of the 700s, developing into the ‘carolingian empire’)
(with the coronation of their ruler ‘charlemagne’ as ‘holy roman emperor’ by ‘pope leo III’ in ‘800 AD’, he and his successors were recognized as legitimate successors to the emperors of the ‘western roman empire’)
(as such, the ‘carolingian empire’ gradually came to be seen in the ‘west’ as a continuation of the ‘ancient roman empire’)
(this ’empire’ would gradually evolve into the modern states of [‘france’ / ‘germany’ / ‘italy’ / (and others)], though the frankish identity remained most closely identified with ‘france’)
(after the death of ‘charlemagne’, his only adult surviving son (‘louis the pious’) became ’emperor’ + ‘king’)
(following Louis the Pious’s death however, accordingly with frankish ‘culture’ and ‘law’ that demanded ‘equality’ among all ‘living male adult heirs’, the ‘frankish empire’ was now split between louis’ 3 sons)
(this led to the creation of independent ‘kingdoms’, which would later become known as the ‘kingdom of france’, the ‘holy roman empire’ (itself evolving eventually into the ‘german states’, and then ‘germany’), and the ‘low countries’ which would later break-up into the ‘kingdom of belgium’, the ‘kingdom of the netherlands’, ‘luxembourg’, ‘switzerland’, and the northern italian ‘city-states’ that would later become part of the ‘kingdom of italy’)
(in the ‘middle ages’, the term frank was used in the ‘east’ as a synonym for western european, as the ‘franks’ were then rulers of most of ‘western europe’)
(the ‘franks’ in the ‘north’ and ‘east’ later kept the more ‘germanic’ aspects of the language and later became part of the ‘germans’, ‘dutch’, ‘flemings’, and ‘luxembourgers’)
(the ‘frankish’ language, which are called frankisch in ‘dutch’ or fränkisch in ‘german’, originated at least partly in the ‘old frankish’ language of the ‘franks’)
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(nowadays, the ‘german’ + ‘dutch’ names for ‘france’ are frankreich + frankrijk, respectively, both meaning “realm of the franks”)
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