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2 days ago · Alsace ( / ælˈsæs /, [5] US also / ælˈseɪs, ˈælsæs /; [6] [7] French: [alzas] ⓘ; Low Alemannic German / Alsatian: Elsàss [ˈɛlsɑs]; German: Elsass ( German spelling before 1996: Elsaß .) [ˈɛlzas] ⓘ; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switze...
1 day ago · Charlemagne died in 814, and was laid to rest in the Aachen Cathedral, within his imperial capital city Aachen. He was succeeded by his only surviving son Louis the Pious. After Louis, the Frankish kingdom would be divided, eventually coalescing into West and East Francia, which would respectively become France and the Holy Roman Empire ...
- 9 October 768 – 28 January 814
- Bertrada of Laon
1 day ago · List of wars involving France. This is a list of wars involving modern France from the abolition of the French monarchy and the establishment of the French First Republic on 21 September 1792 until the current Fifth Republic.
May 14, 2024 · France shares its borders with Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain. France has two mountain ranges near its borders: the Alps in the east and the Pyrenees in the south. The climate of southern France is similar to Greece which both have Mediterranean climate.
- 93.0% French citizens, 7.0% foreign nationals
6 days ago · The Ottonians ruled East Francia (roughly speaking, Germany) from 919 to 1024, and from 961 northern Italy too. They also provided two queens of West Francia (France) in these years. His aim is not to be exhaustive, but to analyse the nature and qualities of queenship at key moments in the tenth century.
May 13, 2024 · According to Bradbury, Carolingian kingship came to an end in West Francia for three major reasons (p. 45): first, the last Carolingian kings made an enemy out of their most powerful vassal, the Robertian Hugh Capet; second, they lost the support of the Ottonian rulers of East Francia, their greatest external ally; and third, they opposed the ...
May 8, 2024 · Louis the German was King of East Francia for nearly three decades in the 9th Century. A grandson of the famous Charlemagne, he lived his life mostly as a conqueror. The Kingdom of East Francia. Beginning with Louis the German and ending with Otto the Great, this kingdom dominated Central Europe for a short period of time.
