Kingdom of the Neustrian Franks (jan 1, 511 – jan 1, 679)
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Neustria (also Neustrasia), was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks.Neustria included the land between the Loire and the Silva Carbonaria, approximately the north of present-day France, with Paris, Orléans, Tours, Soissons as its main cities. It later referred to the 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.
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jan 1, 511
jan 1, 679
~ 168 years