Were the Franks German or French?
They were a Germanic language speaking tribe located in Northeast France/Belgium/Netherlands/West Germany.
Trying to impose modern nationalities on them is a futile effort and only done by the worst kind of "we wuz" posters.
This is a troll thread. Do not engage
>>75278439
Neither, those things didn't exist/didn't have the meaning we have on them today.
>>75278593
Oh my.....
>>75278626
this.
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>>75278593
This is a subject that has been under serious debate by historians for centuries. I was merely looking for a German/French perspective on the matter
The Salian Franks that conquered Gaul and the Merovingian kings were originally Dutch, but later settled in Belgium.
Alternative name of this thread : "hey, guys, let's summon the Pannonianon :DDDDDDD"
>>75278739
They also spoke the language that became Old Dutch.
>>75278739
PANNONIANS.
>>75278739
So essentially Charlemagne's patrilineal ancestry is Dutch?
>>75278439
Since Germans today are French then French people in France are Germanic, ethnically.
>>75278561
surprisingly correct first post
>>75278833
I dont know that.
>>75278849
And Belgians are Dutch. And Dutch people are German.
Migration ahoy.
>>75278849
>>75279146
We're a mystery.
Like the Basques.
>>75278561
>Trying to impose modern nationalities on them is a futile effort and only done by the worst kind of "we wuz" posters.
That didn't stop Germans from we-wuzing about Germanic tribes.
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