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The Franks (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum; German: Franken; French: Francs) were a western European people during the Roman Empire and Early Middle Ages. They began as a Germanic people who lived near the Lower Rhine, on the northern continental frontier of the empire.
Frank, 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.
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20. März 2023 · The Franks were a Germanic people who originated along the lower Rhine River. They moved into Gaul during the Migration Age, where they established one of the largest and most powerful kingdoms in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
- The Franks were a Germanic people originating along the lower Rhine River. They were originally settled in Belgium and along the Rhine by the Weste...
- The Franks were of Germanic origin, though they gradually became Romanized culturally as they intermingled with the Gallo-Roman population of Gaul....
- The word 'Frank' means 'the fierce' or 'the brave', and also came to mean 'the free', which became the definition favored by the Franks themselves....
- Some notable Frankish leaders include Clovis I (r. 481-511), who conquered Gaul, converted to Christianity, and united the Franks; Charles Martel (...
In the late 5th and early 6th centuries, Clovis ( c. 466–511), the warrior-leader of one of the groups of peoples collectively known as the Franks, established a strong independent monarchy in what are now the northern part of France and the southwestern part of Belgium.
The origins of the Franks, the conquest of Gaul, Charlemagne's Empire, the establishing of medieval monarchies and the Western nobility, and the transformation of Frankish language into French, Dutch and German.
The Frank family. Anne Frank’s parents both came from middle-class German-Jewish families. Her mother, Edith Holländer, grew up in a practising Jewish home. As he said himself, Otto Frank was “born in Germany into an assimilated family that had lived in that country for centuries”.
Frank, Member of a Germanic-speaking people who invaded the western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The Franks lived east of the Rhine River in the 3rd century and came under Roman influence.
