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Summary Of: Franks
Contemporary definitions of the ethnicity of the Franks vary by period and point of view... is often unclear whether people referred to as Franks referred to themselves as such... the Franks were initially a distinct group with their own culture... From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops... The mythology of the Franks was probably a form of... the Franks concocted an origins story to explain their connection with peoples of classical history... The Franks enter recorded history around 260 due to an invasion across the... The Salian Franks invaded the Roman Empire and were accepted as... the Salian Franks extended their footprint on Roman soil to a territory including the... Franks appear in Roman texts as both allies and enemies... the Franks had the region of the... when Salian Franks were granted to settle as... tribes at the Rhine delta that later became Franks are no exception to that general rule... This caused confrontations between Franks and their neighbours on Roman soil as the... and Franks were known to levy Roman... the Franks under the Merovingians melded Germanic custom with Roman organisation and several important innovations... the Franks fought primarily as a tribe unless they were part of a Roman military unit fighting... Procopius denies the Franks the use of the spear while Agathias makes it one of their primary weapons... They agree that the Franks were primarily infantrymen... implies that the early Franks were a cavalry people... some modern historians have hypothesised that the Franks possessed so numerous a body of horses that they could use them to plough fields... Historian Ammianus Marcellinus shows us that the Franks used this weapon in the same way late Roman troops used their javelins... The throwing axe of the Franks is known as the... The language spoken by the early Franks is known as... only Franks were free of taxation... Some Franks converted early to Christianity... for at the time the Franks were the only major... the legal precedents of the Franks were originally housed only in the memory of designated specialists... Salian Franks were subject to... the Franks and their leaders became an important part of the legendary history of Western Europe... Franks and Frankish leaders became common political symbols for... Encyclodia Page On: Franks
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