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The Thuringii had a separate identity as late as 785–786, when one of their leading men, Hardrad, led an abortive insurrection against Charlemagne. The Carolingians codified the Thuringian legal customs (but perhaps did not use them extensively) as the Lex Thuringorum and continued to exact a tribute of pigs, presumably a Merovingian ...
In 1952 the state was abolished as an East German administrative unit, and Thuringia was split into the districts of Erfurt, Suhl, and Gera. It was reintegrated as a state shortly before German reunification in Oct., 1990. It is the smallest but most densely populated of the new German states.
The Thuringians remained a distinct people, and in the Middle Ages their land was organised as the Landgraviate of Thuringia. Landgraviate Wartburg Castle The Landgraviate of Thuringia within the Empire around the middle of the 13th century.
Regents of Thuringia. The Thuringians were one of those Germanic tribes that created large kingdoms during the fifth century. The Thuringian kingdom stretched from the mouth of Elbe to Danube but was destroyed by Franks and Saxons AD 531, its last king was Hermenefried. Later a considerably smaller duchy was created in Thuringia under Frankish ...
The capital is Erfurt. The Germanic Thuringians appeared after c. ad 350 and were conquered by the Huns in the mid-5th century. In 1485 Thuringia became part of Saxony and was divided into several states; they joined the German Empire in 1871 and were reunited after World War I.
Thomas-Murray Link to Ancient Tribes - Thuringians. The Thuringii or Toringi were a Germanic tribe which appeared late during the Völkerwanderung in the Harz Mountains of central Germania around 280, in a region which still bears their name to this day — Thuringia.
The Germanic Thuringians appeared after about ad 350 and were conquered by the Huns in the second quarter of the 5th century, but by 500 they had established a large kingdom stretching from the Harz mountains to the Danube. As a result of the defeat of their…
