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	FRANCIA
		The only other languages in Francia related to Hungarian, which is not an Indo-European language, are Finnish and Estonian, which are probably at the western end of a very ancient distribution of the Uralic languages.
		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).
		The division was equal enough, Charles "the Bald" in the West (Francia Occidentalis), Louis "the German" in the East (Francia Orientalis), and Lothar in the Middle and South (Francia Media).
	www.friesian.com /francia.htm (14110 words)

	Flanders - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		West Flanders is the portion bordering the North Sea, and its coast-line extends from the French to the Dutch frontier for a little over 40 m.
		The admiration of the foreign observer for the Belgian system of market gardening is not diminished on learning that the subsoil of most of this tract is the sand of the "dunes." Fishing employs a large proportion of the coast population.
		On the break-up of the Carolingian empire the river Scheldt was by the treaty of Verdun (843) made the line of division between the kingdom of East Francia (Austrasia) under the emperor Lothaire, and the kingdom of West Francia (Neustria) under Charles the Bald.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Flanders (3125 words)

	Germany, Federal Republic of - Search View - MSN Encarta
		West Germany became a leading economic world power in the 1970s and 1980s, and East Germany was a leader among Warsaw Pact economies.
		By the 10th century East Francia was being buffeted by new waves of pagan Danes, Magyars, and Moravians from the north and east and was virtually torn apart by rival peoples fighting.
		In the west the princes were involved in four wars by which Louis XIV strove to extend French territory to the Rhine.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761576917__1/Germany_Federal_Republic_of.html (18238 words)

	The Dissolution of the Frankish Empire
		After the death of Charles the Bald 877 West Francia was inherited by his son Louis the Stammer, Italy however went to Carloman of Bavaria.
		When also Louis died 879 was West Francia plunged into a crisis, Louis’ two sons divided the kingdom between themselves but their legitimacy were disputed and count Boso was elected king in Provence by the local nobles.
		The conflict between East and West Francia was resolved 880 with the treaty of Ribemont whereby Louis the Younger also added the western part of Lotharingia to East Francia.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/francia2.htm (955 words)

	Worldstats: Providing Information about our world!
		West Francia, under Charles the Bold, formed the basis of France.
		East Francia, under Louis the German, became the basis of Germany.
		West Francia included the narrow strip of land north and west of the Scheldt river in today's Belgium.
	www.worldstats.org /world/belgium.shtml (545 words)

	Issue of the So-called 'Holy Roman Empire'
		With the end of the Carolingian empire a political separation between the east and west Franks became irreversible as their respective cultures continued to develop differently.
		The various kings ruling in Francia occidentalis, Lotharingia, and Francia orientalis (present Western Germany), each in turn, were aiming more or less at the title of 'emperor' (for example Charles II 'le Chauve' was crowned Emperor in 875).
		['Emperor of the West', as opposed to the 'Emperor of the East' at Constantinople.]
	xenophongroup.com /montjoie/hre-isu.htm (2235 words)

	Barbarian West, A History of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In 843 the Treaty of Verdun divided the Carolingian Empire into three parts: East Francia (roughly modern-day Germany), West Francia (roughly modern-day France), and, separating the two, an area running from the North Sea through Lotharingia (modern-day Lorraine) and Burgundy to northern Italy.
		By the 10th century, East Francia was being buffeted from the north and east by new waves of pagan invaders.
		The greatest secular lords in East Francia were the rulers of five stem (tribal) duchies: Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria, Saxony, and Lorraine.
	history-world.org /franks1.htm (8134 words)

	GERMANY, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The head of state is the federal president, who is elected to a 5-year term by a federal convention consisting of the Bundestag (the lower house of the parliament) and an equal number of delegates chosen by the state legislatures.
		Lacking geographical boundaries except for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, it was in the path of migrations and invasions from the east and west, and the fluidity of the population helped delay German unification.
		By the 10th century East Francia was being buffeted by new waves of pagan Danes, Magyars, and Moravians from the north and east and was virtually torn apart by rival tribes.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=210337 (17391 words)

	36th Generation (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kunigunde Unknown, Princess of the West Franks, Countess of Trier and Ardennes "Cunigunde" was born circa 890 in Aachen, Rhineland, Germany and married 909.
		BIOGRAPHY: Robert I was the younger son of Robert the Strong of Neustria, and briefly king of France (from 922 to 923), or West Francia.
		He was the son of the West Saxon king Edward the Elder (who reigned from 899 to 924) and the half brother of King Athelstan (who reigned from 924 to 939), under whom the political unification of England had been accomplished.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /jbourchier/aqwg71.htm (2017 words)

	francia media
		This lesser-known chapter of European history began with the death of Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, and the division of the Carolingian realm by the Treaty of Verdun in 843.
		The central part of the Carolingian legacy, Francia Media, came under the rule of Louis’ son Lotharius, who was also crowned emperor.
		The FRANCIA MEDIA PROJECT seeks, therefore, to stimulate scientific research, advanced heritage presentation, and a wide range of cultural events throughout the historical core of Francia Media (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia) to study, commemorate, communicate, develop, and preserve this rich European legacy.
	www.franciamedia.org /engels/start.html (340 words)

	Louis the German
		The third son of the emperor Louis the Pious and his first wife, Irmengarde, Louis the German (804-876) was ruler of Eastern Francia from 817 until his death.
		His early years were partly spent at the court of his grandfather, Charlemagne, whose special affection he is said to have won.
		He lived in close alliance with the Church, to which he was very generous, and entered eagerly into schemes for the conversion of his heathen neighbours
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Louis_the_German.html (635 words)

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		The west, Francia Occidentalis, grows into modern France, speaking a Romance language, and the east, Francia Orientalis, grows into modern Germany, officially speaking a High German dialect that might have seemed uncouth to Charlemagne.
		It is not certain that Bertrada (or Bertha), the mother of Charlemagne, a daughter of Charibert, Count of Laon, was legally married to Pepin until some years later than either 742 or 745.
		Charlemagne, reigning over his vast empire in West Europe, was in many ways a successor to the emperors of the Western Roman Empire.
	www.lycos.com /info/holy-roman-empire--west-europe.html?page=2 (349 words)

	Europa: The History of the White Race :Chapter 38
		The course of that catastrophic war, which saw millions of Germans killed, is related in a later chapter: suffice to say here that it ended in defeat for Germany and Austria with the signing of the Treaty Of Versailles in 1919 and the abdication of the last German king, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
		The division between East and West Germany became the focal point of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
		In October 1990 East and West Germany were formally re-united, boosting the German population to approximately 80 million - including at least 7 million non-German guest workers, or "gastarbeiters".
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/fowles/500/hwr38.htm (4354 words)

	Belgium History / The Ancient Celts
		West Francia, under Charles the Bold, formed the basis of France.
		East Francia, under Louis the German, became the basis of Germany.
		West Francia included the narrow strip of land north and west of the Scheldt river in today's Belgium.
	www.geographia.com /belgium/bxhis01.htm (410 words)

	Francia - Moviefone
		In the threatment here, "Francia" will mean all of Europe that in the Mediaeval...
		On the other hand, Francia was the result of the West Roman Empire...
		The Periphery of Francia: Spain, Britain, Eastern Europe...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/francia/138012/main (95 words)

	Amazon.com: "West Francia": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In West Francia, or France, the monarchy long remained feeble, and the burden of defense fell to dukes and counts,...
		From Frankish Gaul to the Kingdom of West Francia Historians conventionally characterize the period from around 500 to the establishment of' the Capetian dynasty in 987 in terms ol...
		Treaty of Verdun in 843 the Carolingian inheri- tance was split three ways: Charles the Bald (840-77) was to hold West Francia, Louis the German (died 876) East Francia, and the 44...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/West-Francia (370 words)


		The Franks were a confederation of Low Germanic tribes which had lived west of the Rhine river beyond Roman authority; the name Franci meant "free." The Franks spoke their own language, Frankish.
		Francia in the ninth century stretched from the Elbe River to the Ebro River in Spain, and included Italy as far south as Rome.
		West Francia included the old Roman Gallia, while East Francia emerged on the Rhine River and eastward.
	www.raleightavern.org /france.htm (5689 words)

	Middle Francia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Middle Francia describes the realm created for Emperor Lothair I, wedged between East Francia and West Francia.
		The kingdom, which included the kingdom of Italy, Burgundy, Provence, and the west of Austrasia, was an unnatural creation of the Treaty of Verdun of 843, with no historical or ethnic identity to bind its varied peoples.
		The kingdom was split on Lothair's death into those of Lotharingia, Provence (with Burgundy divided between it and Lotharingia), and Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middle_Francia (117 words)

	coins of burgundy france Rome to Charles the Bald
		They were ultimately displaced by the Allemans and by the mid 5th century, with Rome's collapse in the west, came to settle east of the Rhone and around modern western Switzerland.
		Francia needed a unified response and Burgundy was not able to stand alone.
		They finally agreed to a partition in 843, whereby Charles received Francia, the west of the kingdom, Lothar the middle lands running from modern Flanders into Italy, and Louis received what is now Germany.
	home.eckerd.edu /~oberhot/burgundy.htm (1433 words)

	Setting the Stage for Eudes: The Unraveling of Carolingian Hegemony
		Louis the Stammerer’s third son, Charles, was still too young to be considered for the throne in west Francia.
		Charles the Fat started his reign in the west with diplomatic and military success against the continued Viking incursions but ultimately was deposed by his nephew Arnulf in 887 for failing to stem the Viking threat.
		It is against this background that Odo count of Paris was elected as ruler in west Francia, over a territory much reduced in size from the kingdom Charles the Bald bequeathed his sons.
	home.eckerd.edu /~oberhot/eudes-background.htm (638 words)

	Charlemagne - MSN Encarta
		During his reign, Charlemagne built a kingdom that included almost all of western and central Europe and he presided over a cultural and legal revival that came to be known as the Carolingian Renaissance.
		His empire did not long survive his death, but its two main territories, East and West Francia, later became the major parts of two important European entities: West Francia became modern-day France, and East Francia became first the Holy Roman Empire and then the modern state of Germany.
		Charlemagne’s close alliance with the popes, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, also established a precedent for subsequent ties between medieval popes and kings.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571217/Charlemagne.html (648 words)

	Kings of France
		Indeed, for many centuries, Latin was the only written language over an area, "greater" Francia, that came to stretch from Norway to Portugal and from Iceland to Catholic parts of the Ukraine.
		As neat halves of Charlemagne's empire eventually formed, France in the West and Germany in the East, the stage for the greatest battles of modern war in the 19th and 20th centuries would be set along the seam, from Nieuwpoort (1600) to Ramillies (1706), Waterloo (1815), Verdun (1916), and the Bulge (1944).
		Feeling for the Carolongian house, however, was still strong, and although the West Franks turned to Odo's family again before the end of the Carolingian period, he was followed by the last son of Louis the Stammerer, Charles (III) the Simple.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/family/1155/kingofra.htm (2664 words)

	Charlemagne - MSN Encarta
		Later, in 870, the Treaty of Mersen divided Lothair’s middle kingdom, with Lotharingia going to East Francia and the rest to West Francia.
		The Carolingian dynasty ruled in West Francia, or France, until 987; the German branch of the family ruled in East Francia until 911.
		The title of emperor of the Romans (which would later become Holy Roman emperor) remained in the east, thereafter held exclusively by German kings.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571217_3/Charlemagne.html (485 words)

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	www.hotelparigi.co.uk /La-Defense-West-Parigi (65 words)

	Maps of Prophecy
		In the west The Etruscans moved to northern Italy and the Minoans settled in Crete.
		An area in the Great Plains of the central United States that is mostly west of the Mississippi river, between the Rocky Mountains in the west and the Appalachian Mountains in the east.
		A river of living water flows east and west from Jerusalem into a sea in the east and a sea in the west.
	www.teachinghearts.org /dre00maps.html (7228 words)

	36th Generation (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Herbert married Hildebrante de Neustrie (or Poiters), Princess of the West Franks.
		Hildebrante de Neustrie (or Poiters), Princess of the West Franks "Adela" was born circa 887 in Vermandois, East Picardy (later Picardie région), France.
		Billung von Saxony of Stubenshorn was born in Saxony, Germany.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /edebeauchamp/aqwg88.htm (2048 words)

	animals stuck to the wall: Is the Pope?... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The treaty of Verdun of 843 saw three of his grandsons split his kingdom into three parts: Lothair got Middle Francia, Louis the German got East Francia and Charles the Bald (hee!) got West Francia.
		East Francia slowly and stickily became the Holy Roman Empire of the West (aka of the German nation aka the Reich), the process finishing under Otto I the Great in 962.
		A bit before Otto, Charles the Fat (son of Louis the German) helped things along, since he managed to inherit large chunks of his uncles' territory owing to their unfortunate habit of dying without heirs.
	animalsstucktothewall.blogspot.com /2006/08/is-pope.html (1084 words)

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