Clovis's power base was to the southwest of this, around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium.

On the death of Acarius, Bishop of Noyon-Tournai, March 14 of Clovis's third year ( 642 ), Eligius was made his successor, with the unanimous approbation of clergy and people.

In accordance with Salian tradition, the kingdom was divided between Clovis's four surviving sons: Childebert I in Paris, Chlodomer in Orléans, and Clotaire I in Soissons.

It came about that as the two armies were fighting fiercely, there was much slaughter, and Clovis's army began to be in danger of destruction.

Wulfram was educated at Clovis's court and showed a gift for academic learning.

Constant re-divisions of territories by Clovis's descendants resulted in many rivalries that, for more than two hundred years, kept Neustria in almost constant warfare with Austrasia, the eastern portion of the Frankish kingdom.

Clotilde had wanted her son to be baptized but Clovis refused to allow it, so Clotilde had the child baptized without Clovis's knowledge.

Shortly after his baptism, their son died, and his death further strengthened Clovis's resistance to converting to Christianity.

After Clovis's conversion he heals all the conundrums he once experienced as a Pagan.

During or soon after the reign of Clovis's son Chlothar III, the dynasty of Neustria, like that of Austrasia before it, ceded authority to its own mayor of the palace.

However, he could not recover the territory of the Aude, which remained in the hands of the Visigoths, thanks to the help of the King of the Ostrogoths whose troops defeated Clovis's son in 508.

Clovis's first post office opened in 1895.

Gundobad feared the worst with Clovis's army at the gates.

Ebroin eventually reunited the entire Frankish kingdom for Clovis's successor Chlothar III by killing Grimoald and removing Childebert in 661.

This dragon is the one who kills Clovis's sister Elena and starts off the events leading to the battle with Dahaka.

He establishes his capital at Tournai ( modern Belgium ) and becomes an foederati of the Western Roman Empire.

With his Frankish warband he was established with his capital at Tournai, on lands which he had received as a foederatus of the Romans, and for some time he kept the peace with his allies.

Under king Childeric I, who was buried or reburied there, Tournai was the capital of the Frankish empire.

* The bishopric of Tournai was the religious capital of Flanders during more than a millennium ( from 496 to 1559 ).

Cassel was fortified with a circuit of walls at around this time but suffered its own decline, which was reflected in its loss of status as a regional capital ; Tournai took over as the capital of the newly constituted Civitas Turnacensium.

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New Granada, with the vice regal capital at Bogota, encompassed modern day Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.

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Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.

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Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

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Then in 794 Kammu suddenly shifted the capital again, this time to Heian-kyō, which is modern day Kyoto.

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