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| | GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc. |
 | | The diagram illustrates the fate of the kingdoms, two overthrown by the Franks, two by Romania, and one by Islâm. |
 | | All these tribes in Germany were eventually subjugated by the Franks, the Alemanni in 496 and 505, the Thuringians in 531, the Bavarians at some point after 553, and then finally the Saxons by 804. |
 | | The Rome-Ravenna corridor is later "donated" to the Pope by the Franks and becomes the Papal States, enduring as such, in whole or in part, until 1870, when the unified Kingdom of Italy finally occupies Rome. |
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