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    After the Treaty of Verdun in 843, the Lotharingia was part of Middle Francia for a short time and both West and East Francia tried to gain control...
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    division of the Carolingian Empire by the Treaty of Verdun of 843. Conflict between East and West Francia over Lotharingia was based on the fact that these...
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    Middle Francia, created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, when the Carolingian empire was divided between the three sons of Louis the Pious. Middle Francia was...
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    sections in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun, and the area that is now the department of Meuse became part of Middle Francia. The new ruler was Lothair I, and...
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    d'Outremer or Transmarinus ("From overseas"), reigned as King of West Francia from 936 to 954. A member of the Carolingian dynasty, he was the only son...
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    the Treaty of Verdun, and the area that is now the department of Indre, became part of West Francia. In 869, the king of Middle Francia died without leaving...
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    divided among Louis' three sons by the Treaty of Verdun of 843. The middle realm, known as Middle Francia, went to Lothair I, reaching from Frisia in Northern...
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    division of the Carolingian Empire into West, Middle and East Francia at the Treaty of Verdun in 843 - with three grandsons of the emperor Charlemagne installed...
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    and building on his father's work, he restored centralized government in Francia and began the series of military campaigns that re-established the Franks...
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  • son of Louis the German. Charles the Bald (869–870), also king of West Francia and Italy, and Carolingian emperor Louis the Younger (880–882), also king...
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    part of Francia, and at the division of Francia at the Treaty of Verdun in 843, it became part of the short-lived kingdom of Middle Francia. After only...
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    royal policies. As Carolingian power failed, the great nobles of West Francia began to assert that the monarchy was elective, not hereditary, and twice...
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    Kingdom of Francia, which became the heartland of the Carolingian Empire. The Treaty of Verdun of 843 partitioned the empire, with West Francia evolving...
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    the 843 Treaty of Verdun, the defeat of Pepin II and the death of Charles the Bald, the Kingdom of Aquitaine (subsumed in West Francia) ceased to have any...
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    737. When Francia's king divided Frankish Burgundia into three parts in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, Vienne became part of Middle Francia. King Charles...
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    List of rulers of Provence (category Francia)
    dukes during the period of general Carolingian unity until the Treaty of Verdun (843). Leibulf (until c. 829) Guerin (c. 829 – 845) Fulcrad (845 – c. 860)...
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    Visigoths successfully foiled attacks by the Frankish king Clovis I. In Francia, the Arab and Berber Muslim forces invaded the region of Septimania in...
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    at the Treaty of Verdun; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts. Alsace formed part of the Middle Francia, which was ruled by...
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    d'Argout. The king stopped in Meaux, Château-Thierry, Châlons-sur-Marne (renamed Châlons-en-Champagne in 1998), Valmy, Verdun and Metz. There, in the name of...
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    the Second Battle of Champagne to minimize casualties in the Battle of Verdun, became commander of French forces in 1917. He came to power in World War...
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    Pétain was known as a World War I hero, who was the victor of the Battle of Verdun. As the last French prime minister of the Third Republic, he was a reactionary...
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  • Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as Francia in Latin) largely corresponding to ancient Gaul from the middle of the...
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    bloodbath of the war of attrition reached its apogee in the Battles of Verdun and the Somme. By 1917 mutiny was in the air. A consensus among soldiers...
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  • It was divided in three parts; West Francia for Charles the Bald, Middle Francia for Lothair I and East Francia for Louis the German, hence laying the...
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    year's 843 signing of the Treaty of Verdun, the location of the present commune fell within the territory of Middle Francia. Between 925–1542, it was part...
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    ISBN 1-85367-276-9 Diario de las operaciones del ejército español que entró en Francia por el Rosellón, Biblioteca Nacional de España, MSS/1276, 1001158748. Louis...
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    de Montréal central building (Ernest Cormier), Montreal 1940 Verdun Natatorium, Verdun, 1930 York Theatre, Montreal, 1938 Adilman Building, Saskatoon...
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    longstanding historical association with the Roman Catholic Church. The Treaty of Verdun (843) provided for the partition of Charlemagne's empire into 3 independent...
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    found refuge with Adalbert-Atto in Canossa Castle. King Otto I of East Francia then intervened in Italy himself and married Adelaide in 951. This resulted...
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  • conflicts. Zuckerman names the exilarch family he views as ruling southern Francia is the Makhiri Dynasty, named for its first ruler, Makhir of Narbonne (born...
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