kgauck
01-23-2003, 02:04 PM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Romes" <Archmage@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:22 AM
> Charlemagne (Karl der Große) conquered the Saxons (of the area now
> germany) too - and yet he is considered a great leader of great
> achievements in Germany :-)
Karl was a Frank, whose homeland was Franconia, the region between Saxony
and Swabia. The Franks expanded their control to include northern
Frankreich (France) but remained culturally Frankish. The division of
culture between Germanic Germany and Germanic France is normally said to be
observable by the time of the treaty of Metz a hundred years after Karl.
Beneath the level of the nobles, a Gallo Roman culture continued to limp
along to one degree or another under the Franks, ultimatly producing the
Franco-Gallo-Roman fusion we now know as France.
Kenneth Gauck
kgauck@mchsi.com
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From: "Michael Romes" <Archmage@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:22 AM
> Charlemagne (Karl der Große) conquered the Saxons (of the area now
> germany) too - and yet he is considered a great leader of great
> achievements in Germany :-)
Karl was a Frank, whose homeland was Franconia, the region between Saxony
and Swabia. The Franks expanded their control to include northern
Frankreich (France) but remained culturally Frankish. The division of
culture between Germanic Germany and Germanic France is normally said to be
observable by the time of the treaty of Metz a hundred years after Karl.
Beneath the level of the nobles, a Gallo Roman culture continued to limp
along to one degree or another under the Franks, ultimatly producing the
Franco-Gallo-Roman fusion we now know as France.
Kenneth Gauck
kgauck@mchsi.com
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