. The Germanic people known as the Franks expanded their political control out of their original lands of the middle and lower Rhine and in the 6th century created a kingdom that extended over the modern areas of western Germany, the Low Countries, and...

The Franks or Frankish people (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an ethnic group living north and east of the Lower Rhine. Under the Merovingian dynasty, they founded one of the Germanic...