Salian Franks

The Salian Franks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι, Salioi), were a northwestern subgroup of the early Franks who appear in the historical record in the fourth and fifth centuries. They lived west of the Lower Rhine in what was then the Roman Empire and today the Netherlands and Belgium.

The traditional historiography sees the Salians as one of the main divisions of the Franks alongside the Ripuarians. Recent scholarship, however, has often questioned the ethnic significance of both these terms.^[1]