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Sentence Examples On Sunday, they planned to grill up some kebabs and franks out on the patio for lunch. Every chance I get I boil up some franks, cut a couple of piece of cheese, stick them on a piece of bread and consume. Kids love them, especially the small variety, chipolatas and cocktail franks. Beans and franks are fine for some but these staples of campfire grub don't have to make an appearance on your holiday menu. Even with pretty strict standards, about half the burgers, nuggets, franks, and sausages qualified for a thumbs up. Dolich makes his franks from pork and beef, and serves them on brioche buns baked by pastry chef and chef de cuisine Ellen Jackson, with house-made ketchup alongside. Vitamin C can be conveniently added to ham casseroles, chipped beef on toast, beans and franks, and any number of processed-meat recipes. Her beans are easy to whip up with canned vegetarian baked beans, chicken franks, turkey salami, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke. Richard uses an old French hot-dog machine that toasts baguettes and steams the franks. Homesick New Englanders can now find Danver's Butchery steak tips at Butcher's Gourmet in Osprey, along with real Fenway franks, New England chicken pot pies and lobster pies. I want the name of this flying whatchamacallit to go with the Daily Planet like bacon and eggs, franks and beans, death and taxes, politics and corruption! The Franks, Visigoths, and Burgundians all made large inroads into the western empire. In 1968 Gen. Franks returned to Fort Sill, where he commanded a cannon battery in the Artillery Training Center. The Franks and other Germanic tribes were never absorbed into the Roman world, rather, they added a Germanic impression to that world. About 100 years later, the Germanic tribe of the Franks invaded and took possession of Belgium. Susan Franks, director of nursing and planning, said she was worried about staffing levels. The ambassadors returned to Damascus and Saladin decided to punish the Franks himself. Between the fourth and eighth centuries A.D., most of both portions were conquered by the Franks. At 58, Fontaine shows little sign of slowing down on his amorous adventures, as intermittently recorded in Franks passim. Franks was one of the founders of the scientific study of ethnography and increased the Museum's collections in that area exponentially. Show More Sentences The northern tongue was influenced by Frankish, the Germanic language of the Franks, who gave their name to both France and French. Boniface was also prominent in Frankish church reform and functioned as representative of the pope to the Franks. Both the Visigoths and the Franks, in emulation of the Old Testament, anointed their kings with holy oil. Have a read of the scholarly works on the conversion of the Franks and compare and contrast with Pol Pot. It lost most of its monasteries and was not much of a prize when a Viking came to the King of the West Franks in 911 with a proposal. I once interviewed UK antiques expert Mark Franks, who is collecting cigarette cases and Edwardian desks to pay for his retirement. As reported in Franks passim, the Dullard show is like a wounded albatross trying to get off the ground. The Franks likewise suffered many casualties and were able to loot the camp but not to pursue the enemy beyond the battlefield. On the approach of the Frankish army he again raised the siege, but this time the Franks gave battle. By the seventh century, the Franks were one of the dominant forces of western Europe. It fastened on the Gauls as the Celtic inhabitants of the whole of France and on their subjugation first by the Romans, then by the Franks. When Gen. Franks utters them, the words spin off his lips with a warm homespun flavor. The mayors ruled the Franks in all essential points, and the Merovingians were mere figureheads. With Aleppo and Mosul under his control, Saladin could finally turn his attention to the Franks. The Franks had had a near thing after the Field of Blood, but Tyre and Azaz had somewhat redressed the balance. Between his arrival in 718 and his murder by pagans in 754, Boniface preached among the Frisians, Germans, and Franks, setting up a see at Mainz. It seems much less likely that these different origins were linked to any ethnic distinction between the Franks and the Lombards. Since the eighth century most probably the designations Franks and Frankish extended beyond the boundaries of the Frankish tribe. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Franks and Ostrogoths kept up the tradition. With the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Franks held sway for more than 550 years. Show More Sentences In the 3rd century, the Franks unsuccessfully attempted to invade Roman Gaul. The laws of the Salian Franks are considered a part of the Germanic Codes that predated Roman Law in Europe. By 924 the Franks were forced to grant the Danes the districts of Bayeux, Exmes and Sees, and in 933 the Cotenin and Avranchin. But the power of Carolo Augosto did not hail from the Pope, but instead from his lordship over the Franks, and, to a lesser extent, the Lombards. The Kingdom of the West Franks corresponded more or less with France, though southern France broke away fairly early. As commander-in-chief, General Franks was responsible for the way in which his men acted on the ground. We are being given no more choice about fighting violent expansionists than were the Franks and Spaniards of the 8th century or the Hungarians and Moldavians of the 16th. Since the Normans had passed through only two weeks earlier, it is possible that the town was simply drained of supplies and that the Franks did not believe it. The Franks moved to Amsterdam, which they knew to be a refuge, as well as a place where otto had connections. The Franks occupied Gaul, developing into the powerful Merovingian Empire, whose art synthesized a wide range of influences, Gallo-Roman, Byzantine, and even Coptic. The emergence of the modern nation took place over several centuries and resulted from a combination of the cultural influences of Gauls, Romans, and Franks. The city was eventually damaged when a group of Franks set fire to a mosque in the Saracen quarter and Alexius IV refused to make the promised payment. But Rep. Trent Franks argued that creating a law with such a distinction may be hard. Franks was not relying on pseudoscientific nuttery about the lady-parts shutting down pregnancy in the case of rape. My colleague Stephen Franks has done an excellent minority report in which he states that we go into the dangerous area of double jeopardy, and we do not need to do that. In 481-2, Clovis I became ruler of the Salian Franks of Tournai. The average length of the daily raid system of the army ants studied by Burton and Franks was 195 m, and chipmunks forage within 160 m of their burrows. From Gotland and south-east Sweden came the Geats, Norwegians, Franks from northern France and central Germany, Wends from the southern Baltic coasts, and many others. Count Baldwin I of Flanders eloped with Judith, daughter of King Charles the Bald of the west Franks, who was by the age of 16 the widow of two kings of Wessex. The Benedictines, really the Black Monks, came into their own after 800 AD when the pope and the Franks formed an alliance known as the Holy Roman Empire. Show More Sentences Under the Franks the role of constable developed from being in charge of the royal stables to a principal officer of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings. The origins of the duchy of Normandy lie in a grant of territory around Rouen made early in the 10th cent. by the king of the west Franks to a Viking chieftain named Rollo. The Franks took an apartment on the Merwedeplein, right around the corner from Frieda Brommet. An eighth-century Lombard nobleman in Tuscany even converted his house into a monastery and took his vows, apparently to avoid having to fight the Franks. Procopius denies the Franks the use of the spear while Agathias makes it one of their primary weapons. They agree that the Franks were primarily infantrymen, threw axes and carried a sword and shield. Scramasaxes and arrowheads are numerous in Frankish graves even though the Byzantine historians do not assign them to the Franks. The evidence of Gregory and of the Lex Salica implies that the early Franks were a cavalry people. The Salic laws were arbitrated by a committee appointed and empowered by the King of the Franks. All the Franks of Francia were subject to the same law code, which retained the overall title of Lex Salica. The Lex Alamannorum took laws from the Alamanni, then subject to the Franks. Holy Roman Emperor Otto II had assembled a great army of Saxons, Franks, Frisians and Wends to fight against the Norse pagan Danes. However, Novempopulania was far away from the home base of the Franks in northern France, and was only very loosely controlled by the Franks. Maurice, however, had long ago determined to limit his efforts against the Lombards to intrigue and diplomacy, pitting the Franks against them. This weakness became even more evident when the Lombards had to face the increasing power of the Franks. On the foreign affairs side, Authari managed to thwart the dangerous alliance between the Byzantines and the Franks. Complete emancipation appears to have been granted only among the Franks and the Lombards. Talking of his own time, however, Procopius situates the Varni north and east of river Rhine, bordering the Franks. In fact, the term Warini might have been used for all Germanic tribes outside the realm of the Franks. For punitive expeditions Germanicus used the Ems river, which flowed from the heart of the country occupied by the tribes that became the Franks. Show More Sentences Up to the end of Roman control, it was an intensely garrisoned province that was inhabited by Romans and Ripuarian Franks in the 5th century. The Holy Roman Empire emerged around 800, as Charlemagne, king of the Franks, was crowned by the pope as emperor. Subsequently they were probably absorbed into the tribal confederations such as the Franks and Allemanni. By 432 it seems the country of the Nervians had been taken over by the Franks. This kingship changed from Franks to Saxons, who had suffered greatly during the conquests of Charlemagne. This seems to reflect Frankish desire to connect the Franks with the people they ruled. A widening cultural divide grew between the Franks remaining in the north and the rulers far to the south. Franks continued to reside in their original territories and to speak their original dialects and languages. However, sometimes reference is made to a transition from the language spoken by the Salian Franks to Old Dutch. At some point the language spoken by the Franks must have become identifiably Dutch. Eventually, the Franks who had settled more to the south of this area in northern Gaul started adopting the Vulgar Latin of the local population. Ironically, the language of the Franks did not develop into the lingua franca. Meanwhile, the Franks were gradually infiltrating and assuming power in this domain. The Franks were able to wrest control of Aquitaine from the Visigoths, but otherwise Theoderic was able to defeat their incursions. The rest was ruled by Sigismund's Arian brother Godomar, under Gothic protection against the Franks who had captured Sigismund. Theodoric forged alliances with the Visigoths, Alamanni, Franks and Burgundians, some of which were accomplished through diplomatic marriages. After their conversion he portrayed the Franks as fighting against Arian heretics and barbarians. The most prominent other places named after the Franks are the region of Franconia, the city of Frankfurt, and Frankenstein Castle. Jovinus was dead by 413, but the Romans found it increasingly difficult to manage the Franks within their borders. During Chlothar's reign, the Franks had made an attack on northwestern Italy, but were driven off by Grimoald, King of the Lombards, near Rivoli. Show More Sentences There were no more active Merovingian kings after that point and Charles and his Carolingian heirs ruled the Franks. The coronation gave permanent legitimacy to Carolingian primacy among the Franks. Clovis was the son of Childeric I, a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks, and Basina, a Thuringian princess. Under Clovis, the Salian Franks came to dominate their neighbours, initially aided by the association with Aegidius. These decrees, equally applicable to Franks and Romans, first established equality between conquerors and conquered. Macrian was killed on campaign against the Franks, in an ambush laid by the Frankish king Mallobaudes. Thereafter, Alamanni was ruled by Franks and the only remaining native Alamannic nobility seems to have hailed from Alsace. He was the first to call himself Duke and Prince of the Franks, a title later taken up by Charles. Charles recognised Chilperic as king of the Franks in return for legitimate royal affirmation of his own mayoralty over all the kingdoms. Having unified the Franks under his banner, Charles was determined to punish the Saxons who had invaded Austrasia. The Franks ransacked Aquitaine twice, and captured Bourges, although Odo retook it. The Franks held their position, believing the battle would resume the following morning. He left Narbonne therefore, isolated and surrounded, and his son would return to conquer it for the Franks. After 737, Charles governed the Franks in lieu of a king and declined to call himself king. In 750, Pepin was elected by an assembly of the Franks, anointed by the archbishop, and then raised to the office of king. Gascon lords also surrendered, and Aquitaine and Gascony were finally fully subdued by the Franks. What might have been acceptable in the fifth century had become provoking and insulting to the Franks in the eighth century. The iconoclasm of the Byzantine Isaurian Dynasty was endorsed by the Franks. Thus, Charlemagne's assumption of the imperial title was not a usurpation in the eyes of the Franks or Italians. Nicephorus ravaged the coasts with a fleet, initiating the only instance of war between the Byzantines and the Franks. Show More Sentences In the siege of Asselt in 882, the Franks sieged a Viking camp at Asselt in Frisia. From this point some reckon a kingdom of the Germans as supplanting that of the Franks. They founded the Kingdom of the Burgundians, which was conquered in the 6th century by another Germanic tribe, the Franks. Historically the French people's heritage is diverse, including populations of Gauls, Ligures, Latins, Franks, Iberians, Alamans and Norsemen. The Franks were a Germanic tribe that overran Roman Gaul at the end of the Roman Empire. The Franks were Germanic pagans who began to settle in northern Gaul as laeti, already during the Roman era. Rome encouraged the Franks to slowly replace the Gallican Rite with the Roman rite. The Franks were lost on July 5, shortly after leaving Grenada on their cabin cruiser Reel Lucky. Likewise, the Franks of Western Francia form part of the ancestry of the French people. In that year, the two major powers in western Europe were the Franks in Gaul and the Lombards in Italy. The Franks, in contrast, were barely any different from their barbarian Germanic ancestors. They were soon mentioned as raiding and settling in many North Sea areas, as well as pushing south inland towards the Franks. In the Netherlands, Saxons occupied the territory south of the Frisians and north of the Franks. A Saxon king named Eadwacer conquered Angers in 463 only to be dislodged by Childeric I and the Salian Franks, allies of the Roman Empire. Constantine soon heard of the rebellion, abandoned his campaign against the Franks, and marched his army up the Rhine. Constantine and his Franks marched under the standard of the labarum, and both sides saw the battle in religious terms. Bertha was the daughter of Charibert I, one of the Merovingian kings of the Franks. Moreover, the Franks appreciated the chance to participate in mission that would extend their influence in Kent. During the late third and fourth centuries, Roman Britain had been raided repeatedly by Franks, Saxons, Picts, and Scots. To the south of Sussex lay the English Channel, beyond which lay Francia, or the Kingdom of the Franks. Show More Sentences The autonomous and troublesome duchy of Aquitaine was conquered by the Franks in 769, after a series of revolts against their suzerainty. The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th century. Franks traded timber, furs, swords and slaves in return for silks and other fabrics, spices, and precious metals from the Arabs. The word Varangian may have originated in Old Norse, but in Slavic and Greek it could refer either to Scandinavians or Franks. The Franks at that time were attempting to extend their influence in Kent, and assisting Augustine's mission furthered that goal. An apparition of George heartened the Franks at the siege of Antioch, 1098, and made a similar appearance the following year at Jerusalem. The Merovingian Franks inherited the concept, followed by the Carolingian French but the later French term was basti or bastide. In Old English sources, he appears in Deor, Waldere and in Beowulf and the legend is depicted on the Franks Casket. It drew on ceremonies used by the kings of the Franks and those used in the ordination of bishops. From 1265 to 1271, the Mamluk sultan Baibars drove the Franks to a few small coastal outposts. General Tommy Franks assumed control of Iraq as the supreme commander of the coalition occupation forces. Thus he established a foothold in the borderland between the Franks and the Moors. By 470, the town came to be ruled by the Ripuarian Franks and subordinated to their capital, Cologne. In the year of his coronation as king of the Franks, 768, Charlemagne came to spend Christmas at Aachen for the first time. During the reign of Otto II, the nobles revolted and the West Franks, under Lothair, raided Aachen in the ensuing confusion. This group consisted of tribes that would eventually develop into the Salian Franks. After Roman government in the area collapsed, the Franks expanded their territories in numerous kingdoms. During this expansion, Franks migrating to the south eventually adopted the Vulgar Latin of the local population. Between 600 and around 719 the cities were often fought over between the Frisians and the Franks. During the 3rd century AD, the region was attacked several times by Franks, Alamanni and pirates. Show More Sentences A gradual shift of power during the 8th century led the kingdom of the Franks to evolve into the Carolingian Empire. The Merovingian Franks gradually gained control of the region during the 5th century, under Clovis. Meanwhile, the Franks under Marcomer had taken the opportunity to invade northern Gaul, at the same time further weakening Maximus' position. The formerly Romanized north of Gaul, once it had been occupied by the Franks, would develop into Merovingian culture instead. Rome annexed the area in 51 BCE, which held the region until 486, when the Germanic Franks conquered the region and formed the Kingdom of France. However, it has been determined that these weapons were named because of their use by the Franks, not the other way around. The Carolingian dynasty ruled France until 987, when Hugh Capet, Duke of France and Count of Paris, was crowned King of the Franks. Austrasia was a territory which formed the northeastern section of the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks during the 6th to 8th centuries. The Kingdom of the Franks under Charlemagne was particularly devastated by these raiders, who could sail up the Seine with near impunity. They were later followed by the Bavarians and the Franks, who conquered and ruled most of Italy. Thus they arguably had a greater effect on their region than the Goths, the Franks or the Saxons had on theirs. Conomor, who was killed fighting Clotaire I, king of the Franks, is referred to in stories from both Britain and Brittany. At the end of the Roman period the region was conquered by the Germanic Franks. In November 887 his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia revolted and assumed the title as King of the East Franks. During ancient times some Franks raided Roman territory, while other Frankish tribes joined the Roman troops of Gaul. Following the precedents of Edward Gibbon and Jacob Grimm, the name of the Franks has been linked with the word frank in English. The European Franks reached Francia under King Francio, just as Romulus went to Rome. Fredegar stated that Theudemer, named king of the Franks by Gregory, was descended from Priam, Friga and Francio. A decade later the Romans killed Priam and drove away Marcomer and Sunno, the sons of Priam and Antenor, and the other Franks. The Franks are first mentioned in the Augustan History, a collection of biographies of the Roman emperors. Show More Sentences As a result of this incident, 700 Franks were killed and 300 were sold into slavery. Frankish incursions over the Rhine became so frequent that the Romans began to settle the Franks on their borders in order to control them. In 292 Constantius defeated the Franks who had settled at the mouth of the Rhine. The Franks are mentioned in the Tabula Peutingeriana, an atlas of Roman roads. This difference suggests that, in the few decades between the Ptolemaic map and the Tabula, the Sicambri were absorbed by the Franks. During the 3rd century, the Franks attempted to appropriate Batavia to the south of Lacus Flevo. Some decades later, the Salian Franks controlled the River Scheldt and were disrupting transport links to Britain in the English Channel. He became the first king of all Franks in 509, after he had conquered Cologne. From then on, Germanic soldiers in the Roman army, most notably Franks, were promoted from the ranks. The Franks under the Merovingians melded Germanic custom with Romanised organisation and several important tactical innovations. The Franks first established themselves in the Netherlands and Flanders before they started to fight their way down south and east. Although they were intertwined with the Roman Empire the Franks were not a part of it. Latin became the secondary language to the Germanic one of the Franks and Frankish law took precedence among the people. The Eastern Franks were known as the Ripuarians and those west of the Rhine were known as the Salian Franks. It was in use among the ancient Burgundians, Ripuarian Franks, Alamans, Lombards, and Swedes. The Christianization of the Franks laid the foundation for the further Christianization of the Germanic peoples. During the Saxon Wars, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, Christianized the Saxons by way of warfare and law upon conquest. Conrad's choice was respected by the Reichstag of 919, where Henry was proclaimed king by the leaders of the Franks and Saxons. Boniface's campaign of destruction of indigenous Germanic pagan sites may have benefited the Franks in their campaign against the Saxons. Additionally, a dispute arose between Attila and Aetius about the rightful heir to a king of the Salian Franks. Show More Sentences In 451, Attila's forces entered Gaul, accumulating contingents from the Franks, Goths and Burgundian tribes en route. In 806 Pamplona gave allegiance to the Franks, and in 824 became an independent Kingdom of Pamplona. In 292 Constantius, the father of Constantine I defeated the Franks who had settled at the mouth of the Rhine. In the 4th century, Antwerp was first named, having been settled by the Germanic Franks. Thornapple Valley, Ball Park Franks, Koegel Meat Company, and Hebrew National sausage companies are all based in Michigan. One of these peoples, the Franks, settled in Toxandria in Germania Inferior in the 4th century. John Franks is scary enough, that whimsome little smile covering the fact that he has done something awful. Franks serves as a board member for Burr Oak Tool Inc, and associated international companies. In February of T776, David Franks secured a contract with the Continental Congress to be the prime victualer to British prisoners of war. In Texas Youth Commission circles, John Franks has been known as something of a penny-pincher. The Franks normally called them Northmen or Danes, while for the English they were generally known as Danes or heathen and the Irish knew them as pagans or gentiles. During the early medieval period, the Franks manipulated the technique of glassblowing by creating the simple corrugated molds and developing the claws decoration techniques. Elsewhere in Gaul, the Franks and Celtic Britons set up small polities. Successful at first at containing them, they finally had to concede defeat, allowing Clovis's Salian Franks to occupy the region at the end of the 5th century. For some years Waifer strenuously carried on an unequal struggle with the Franks, but his assassination in 768 marked the demise of Aquitaine's relative independence. True, some brands like Louis Rich Turkey Franks and Health Valley Chicken Wieners, at eight grams of fat per doghave half the fat of regular hot dogs. The cultural and genetic influence of the Visigoths, Franks, et al. When the realm was divided between his son's sons, one part was called eastern, the other western, yet both together were called the Kingdom of the Franks. Pannonian Croat duke Vojnomir of Pannonian Croatia aided Charlemagne, and the Franks made themselves overlords over the Croats of northern Dalmatia, Slavonia and Pannonia. While fighting the Avars, the Franks had called for their support. Show More Sentences Gale looked odds-on to notch his ton but on 99 he tried to hoist a long hop outside off-stump from Franks only to balloon a simple catch to Sidebottom at mid-on. The remaining power confronting the Franks in the east were the Avars, however Charlemagne acquired other Slavic areas, including Bohemia, Moravia, Austria and Croatia. In 797, Barcelona, the greatest city of the region, fell to the Franks when Zeid, its governor, rebelled against Cordova and, failing, handed it to them. Charles seized West Frisia without any great resistance on the part of the Frisians, who had been subjects of the Franks but had rebelled upon the death of Pippin. Gregory struggled through personal relations with four Frankish kings, Sigebert I, Chilperic I, Guntram, and Childebert II and he personally knew most of the leading Franks. Upon the death of his father, Merovech in 457 Childeric I, Clovis' father, became king of the subgroup of the Salian Franks that was based around Tournai. Odo engaged the Franks in battle, but lost and came out weakened. After the fall of the Ostrogoths, the Franks also conquered Provence. He seems also to have claimed a kind of protectorate over the Germanic powers generally, and indeed to have practically exercised it, except in the case of the Franks. He allied with the Franks by his marriage to Audofleda, sister of Clovis I, and married his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Visigoths, Vandals and Burgundians. Meanwhile, language change was gradually working to divide the Franks. They became known as the Ripuarian Franks as opposed to the Salian Franks. By that time the army included large numbers of troops from the major Germanic confederacies along the Rhine, the Alamanni, the Saxons and the Franks. The Franks brought their language with them from their original territory and, as in France, it must have had an effect on the local dialects and languages. The set of dialects of the Franks who continued to live in their original territory in the Low Countries eventually developed in three different ways. Nonetheless, textbooks for secular schools hardly made more use of new archaeological knowledge of the Franks, emphasising instead ancestral figures such as Vercingetorix. The new Norman rulers were culturally and ethnically distinct from the old French aristocracy, most of whom traced their lineage to Franks of the Carolingian dynasty. Each race was so prolific that it sent large numbers of individuals every year to the Franks, who planted them in unpopulated regions of its territory. At the same time that the Franks were expanding southeast into what is now southern Germany, there were linguistic changes taking place in the region. The Franks also expanded their rule southeast into parts of Germany. Show More Sentences After the 5th century, however, the Alans of Gaul were subsumed in the territorial struggles between the Franks and the Visigoths, and ceased to have an independent existence. They came to be seen as Franks and apparently moved over the Rhine as a Frankish people, to settle into the corner of land between the Rhine and Maas rivers. The term orientalis Francia originally referred to Franconia and orientales Franci to its inhabitants, the ethnic Franks living east of the Rhine. This trend brought into circulation in the Mughal atelier the combined aesthetic sensibilities of the Franks and the Turks, also introducing local Indic elements. During the Crisis of the Third Century, the territory of the Treveri was overrun by Germanic Alamanni and Franks and later formed part of the Gallic Empire. The Treveri or Treviri were a Belgic tribe who inhabited the lower valley of the Moselle from around 150 BCE, if not earlier, until their displacement by the Franks. Clovis and the Franks defeated the Alemanni during the 5th century AD, culminating with the Battle of Tolbiac, and Alsace became part of the Kingdom of Austrasia. Gregory saw Franks, Lombards, and Visigoths align with Rome in religion. Under the Franks, they were governed by Frankish law, not their own. The name of the code comes from the circumstance that Clovis was a Merovingian king ruling only the Salian Franks before his unification of Francia. The mythology of the Franks was probably a form of Germanic polytheism. Before their conquest of Gaul, the Franks fought primarily as a tribe, unless they were part of a Roman military unit fighting in conjunction with other imperial units. Germanic peoples, including those tribes in the Rhine delta that later became the Franks, are known to have served in the Roman army since the days of Julius Caesar. The major primary sources on the early Franks include the Panegyrici Latini, Ammianus Marcellinus, Claudian, Zosimus, Sidonius Apollinaris and Gregory of Tours. By the agreement, Charles III, king of the West Franks, granted to the Viking leader Rollo some lands along the lower Seine that were apparently already under Danish control. Before the French Revolution, it divided social classes, with the peasants identifying with the native Gauls while the aristocracy identified with the Franks. Armorica is featured extensively in Bernard Cornwell's novel The Winter King where Ynys Trebes, later Mont Saint Michel is besieged and destroyed by the Franks. Such understanding of their origins is largely the result of Gothic traditions and their true genesis as a people is as obscure as that of the Franks and Alamanni. Hardly influenced by either development, Old Dutch remained close to the original language of the Franks, the people that would rule Europe for centuries. With larger numbers the Franks over took the region of the Rhine. Show More Sentences Its end came in 734 at the Battle of the Boarn, when the Frisians were defeated by the Franks, who then conquered the western part up to the Lauwers. This was the last Frankish ruler who did not rule over all the Franks. In the first half of the 7th century the Ripuarian Franks received the Ripuarian law, a law code applying only to them, from the dominating Salian Franks. The Franks also helped the formation of the Papal States in central Italy. The Germanic Franks adopted Romanic languages, except in northern Gaul where Roman settlements were less dense and where Germanic languages emerged. From the third to 5th centuries, Gaul was exposed to raids by the Franks. What he meant was that the Goths, being heretics, were at once enemies of the true God and inferior to the orthodox Franks in their supernatural backing. Fortified military camps and watchtowers were also used on the southeast coast, in this case to stop migration and plundering by the Franks, Angles and Saxons. Salian Franks appear in Roman texts as both allies and enemies. The Batavi later merged with other tribes into the confederation of the Salian Franks, whose identity emerged at the first half of the third century. According to General Tommy Franks, April Fool, an American officer working undercover as a diplomat, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent. Despite continuing resistance from a few Gothic garrisons and two subsequent invasions by the Franks and Alemanni, the war for the Italian peninsula was at an end. Despite superior numbers, Kerbogha's army, which was divided into factions and surprised by the motivation of the Franks, retreated and abandoned the siege. Cordelia marries Aganippus, King of the Franks, and departs for Gaul. Viking invaders arrived at the mouth of the river Seine in 911, at a time when Franks were fighting on horseback and Frankish lords were building castles. Examples from Classical Literature The head man in the post-office sold forged government franks. These were prepared for me by Mr. Franks, optician, Stoke-on-Trent, and cost very little. Clovis was fifteen or sixteen years old when he became king of the Salian Franks of Tournai. One Childeric, whose career opens in saga and ends in history, was king or hereditary leader of a part of the Salian Franks. Charlemagne and his Franks must have been rather a nuisance to their neighbours. It was seven o'clock when she arrived home again, and Edith Franks was waiting for her in the downstair hall. Clovis was king of the Sicambrians, one of the tribes of the Salian Franks. Also Franks was beginning to feel or to fancy his strength and elasticity not quite what they had been. Under Drusus a castellum was erected here, which was destroyed by the Franks and the Alemanni. The later law of the Ripuarian Franks treats it more distinctly from the former point of view. From the end of the fifth century Cologne belonged to the Franks and was long occupied by the Ripuarian kings. Among the Ripuarian Franks, a free woman thus disgracing herself, was girt with a sword and a distaff. They had been on guard for centuries, keeping the Franks back from the Pyrenees. When the conqueror invaded our country, the Franks who divided the land among themselves invented feudal privilege as a safeguard for property. Franks The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and antlike robots, Proc. Yes, the independence of Armorica is a shame to the arms of the Franks. At this time Tournai became the capital of the Salian Franks. But this invasion of the so-called Salian Franks, never retreats again. Martin Chalkley, Laura Ward and Luise Franks are joining Martin Nicholson, who leads the special projects team. Its may be Sigibert King Brynhild is an of the Franks Amazon and can only and be subdued by his queen Brunhild deflowering her. Show More Sentences Years later the tow-haired Franks swept through the country. The Franks, one of the number, having conquered the Gauls, established the kingdom which has taken its name from them. When the warriors came from Frisland with Franks and vandals. For seven long years King Karl and his Franks warred in the peninsula. Within two years Franks was head of the Houston Music Hall Foundation, charged with building a state-of-the-art theater. 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