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Kingdom of Neustria Neustria, Neustrasia | |||||||||
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486–987 | |||||||||
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Status | Part of Kingdom of the Franks | ||||||||
Capital | Soissons | ||||||||
Official languages | Latin[1] | ||||||||
Common languages |
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Minority languages | Gaulish (until the 6th century)[4] | ||||||||
Religion | Christianity | ||||||||
Demonym(s) | Neustrian | ||||||||
Government | Feudal hereditary monarchy | ||||||||
King | |||||||||
• 486–c.509 | Clovis I (first) | ||||||||
• 986–987 | Louis V of France (last) | ||||||||
Mayor of the Palace | |||||||||
• 639–641 | Aega (first) | ||||||||
• 741–751 | Pepin III (last) | ||||||||
Historical era | Early Middle Ages | ||||||||
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• Capetian dynasty established | 1 June 987 | ||||||||
Currency | Denier | ||||||||
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Today part of | France |
Neustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the eastern Frankish kingdom, Austrasia.[5] It initially included land between the Loire and the Silva Carbonaria, in the north of present-day France, with Paris, Orléans, Tours, Soissons as its main cities.
The same term later referred to a smaller region between the Seine and the Loire rivers known as the regnum Neustriae, a constituent subkingdom of the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia. The Carolingian kings also created a March of Neustria which was a frontier duchy against the Bretons and Vikings that lasted until the Capetian monarchy in the late 10th century, when the term was eclipsed as a European political or geographical term.
Le déclin du Gaulois et sa disparition ne s'expliquent pas seulement par des pratiques culturelles spécifiques: Lorsque les Romains conduits par César envahirent la Gaule, au 1er siecle avant J.-C., celle-ci romanisa de manière progressive et profonde. Pendant près de 500 ans, la fameuse période gallo-romaine, le gaulois et le latin parlé coexistèrent; au VIe siècle encore; le temoignage de Grégoire de Tours atteste la survivance de la langue gauloise.
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