Gallo-Roman language persisted in the northeast into the Silva Carbonaria that formed an effective cultural barrier, with the Franks to the north and east, and in the northwest to the lower valley of the Loire, where Gallo-Roman culture interfaced with Frankish culture in a city like Tours and in the person of that Gallo-Roman bishop confronted with Merovingian royals, Gregory of Tours.

The Franks also formed a common identity with their fellow Roman subjects.

Afterwards, the city formed the centre of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna until the invasion of the Franks in 751, after which it became the seat of the Kingdom of the Lombards.

The Umayyads were waiting for the Franks to come out into the open ; while the Franks, formed up in a thick defensive formation, waited for them to charge uphill.

Austrasia ( meaning " eastern land ") formed the northeastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Thus Neustria formed the western part of the kingdom of the Franks under the rule of the Merovingian dynasty during the sixth to eighth centuries.

Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day western Germany, eastern and northern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

In addition to the levies of militia the Franks normally called up to buttress their forces, he formed an army of Gauls and Germans approximately 30, 000 strong.

It was conquered by the Franks in 774 and formed a part of the Carolingian Empire and Middle Francia, but always with its own kings.

They now formed a defensive alliance with the Tencteri and Bructeri, two more tribes of the future Franks, but this hasty relationship was too little and too late.

During the Crisis of the Third Century, the territory of the Treveri was overrun by Alamanni and Franks and later formed part of the Gallic Empire.

Following the book's publication, Franks moved to California, and formed ' GlobalFusion ', a cause-related marketing agency, working to promote environmentally-friendly fashion and cosmetic brands and helping to launch The Big Issue in Los Angeles.

Having received neither an explanation nor the murderers themselves, Qalawun decided that the ten-year truce he had formed with Acre in 1284 had been broken by the Franks.

The Germanic confederacies of the 3rd century were formed mainly to better compete with each other militarily ; i. e., the Franks were the endemic enemies of the Alamanni from the moment they first received tribal allegiance.

In 11 BC, a part of this tribe was forced by Nero Claudius Drusus to move to the south side of the lower Rhine, where they evidently formed a component of the Tungri before becoming Franks.

The Raritan Valley Rail Coalition, formed in 1998 by former U. S. Congressman Bob Franks, is currently looking for cost-effective ways to improve mobility, reduce highway congestion, and increase transit ridership along the Raritan Valley Line.

While still in school, Franks formed the children ’ s bluegrass band The Peachtree Pickers.

The Salian Franks formed a kingdom on Roman-held soil that was acknowledged by the Romans after 357.

By the end of the fifth century, the Salian Franks had largely moved to a territory ( what is now the Netherlands south of the Rhine and Belgium where they formed a kingdom that eventually gave rise to the Merovingian dynasty.

* 1992: Live Wires ( Live album, recorded at the Roxy in Hollywood, CA, features Michael Franks, Brenda Russell, Marilyn Scott, Take 6 )

Today, the Randall Franks Trophy is presented to the winner each year at the 1890s Day Jamboree Old Time Fiddler's Convention in Ringgold, Ga.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

In 341-2, Constans led a successful campaign against the Franks and in the early months of 343 visited Britain.

The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome in 410, defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalunian Plains in 451, and founded a Kingdom in Aquitaine which was pushed to Hispania by the Franks in 507, converted to Catholicism by the late sixth century, and in the early eighth century conquered by the Muslim Moors.

Some of the most important surviving works of Old English literature are Beowulf, an epic poem ; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a record of early English history ; the Franks Casket, an early whalebone artefact ; and Caedmon's Hymn, a Christian religious poem.

Despite the early conquest of southern Gaul by the Franks after the Battle of Vouillé in 507, the Frankish element was feeble south of the Loire, where Gothic and Gallo-Roman Law prevailed and a small Frankish settlement took place.

The Franks Casket, an Anglo-Saxon hoard-box ( early seventh century ) shows Romulus and Remus in an unusual setting, two wolves instead of one, a grove instead of one tree or a cave, four kneeling warriors instead of one or two gesticulating shepherds.

In these sources he appears as invading the Frankish Kingdoms during the reign of Theodericus I, the son of Chlodovechius I the king of the Franks in the early sixth century, and was killed by a military force led by Theodebertus I, the son of Theodocius I the king of the Franks.

Salic law ( or ; ), or, was the major body of Frankish law governing all the Franks of Frankia under the rule of its kings during the Old Frankish Period, approximately equal to the early Middle Ages.

In the early 5th century the town had become the administrative centre of the Nervii in replacement of Bavay which was probably too exposed to the Franks ' raids and perhaps too damaged.

* U. S. plan to invade Iraq: White House and Pentagon officials announce that Gen. Tommy Franks presented detailed war plans to President Bush in early September.

This in turn comes from the word Frank via the Arabic word firinjīyah, which was used to refer to the Franks, a West Germanic tribe that became the biggest political power in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and from which France derives its name.

Through direct signings or distribution deals, the Reprise roster grew to include Lee Hazlewood, Jill Jackson, the early Joni Mitchell recordings, Neil Young, The Electric Prunes, Donna Loren, Arlo Guthrie, Norman Greenbaum, Tom Lehrer, Tiny Tim, Ry Cooder, Captain Beefheart, the early 1970s recordings by Frank Zappa and The Mothers, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Nico's Desertshore, The Fugs, Jethro Tull, Pentangle, T. Rex, The Meters, John Cale, Gordon Lightfoot, Michael Franks, Richard Pryor, Al Jarreau and The Beach Boys.

In the early centuries AD and during the Byzantine era the region was conquered by many intruders: Goths ( 396 ), Huns ( 447 ), Slavs ( 577 ), Bulgarians ( 976-1025 ), Normans ( 1081 ), Catalonians ( 1309 – 1311 ) and from 1204 by the Franks, while for a short period it was part of the Despotate of Epirus.

However, Ned Franks, a Canadian parliamentary expert, maintains that the Prime Minister still has the right to advise the Governor General to dissolve the parliament early and drop the writs for an election.

Pharamond or Faramund ( c. 370-427 ) is a legendary early king of the Franks, first referred to in the anonymous 8th century Carolingian text Liber Historiae Francorum, also known as the Gesta regnum Francorum.

This first Kingdom of Burgundy would be annexed to the territories of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks in the era of Clovis and his sons ( the late 5th and early 6th centuries ); it would be recreated, however, on several occasions when it was necessary to divide the Frankish territories between the sons of a deceased Frankish King.

Two more credible possibilities are that the town was named after Frank Liardet or after Charles Franks, an early settler of Melbourne killed by aborigines.

In the early 1980s, Franks and Lieb demonstrated that the Meyer-Overton correlation can be reproduced using a soluble protein.

In its broader meaning, Marca Hispanica refers to a group of early Iberian lordships or counts created by the Franks, of which Andorra is the sole autonomous survivor.

When Prebble announced his retirement from politics in early 2004, Franks was one of the four candidates who sought to take his place as leader of ACT.

Lynne Franks ( born 16 April 1948 ) founded one of the UK ’ s best-known public relations consultancies in the early 1970s and is currently an advocate, communications strategist, writer and spokeswoman on women ’ s issues, sustainability and consumer lifestyles.

Nominoe's Vow, an illustration to the English translation of Barzaz Breiz, depicting the early Breton leader Nominoe vowing vengeance on the Franks for killing a Breton emissary