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| | FRANCIA |
 | | By 774, the Franks were virtually the only organized Christian kingdom between Islâm in Spain, the pagan powers to the east, and the remaining Roman Empire, now Greek in character, to the southeast. |
 | | As neat halves of Charlemange's empire eventually formed, France in the West and Germany in the East, the stage for the greatest battles of modern war in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries would be set along the seam, from Nieuwpoort (1600) to Ramillies (1706), Waterloo (1815), Verdun (1916), and the Bulge (1944). |
 | | Henry of Guise was of the house of Anjou and Lorraine, descendants of King John II of France. |
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