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Member of a Germanic-speaking people who invaded the western Roman Empire in the 5th century.
The Franks lived east of the Rhine River in the 3rd century and came under Roman influence. They gained control of northern Gaul by 494 and southern Gaul by 507, and the conversion of their leader Clovis I to Catholic Christianity won them the support of the clergy and the Gallo-Roman population in Gaul. The Franks established one of the most powerful kingdoms of the early Middle Ages, ruling lands in present-day France (to which they gave their name), Belgium, and western Germany. The Merovingian dynasty to which Clovis belonged was succeeded by the Carolingian dynasty , whose most notable ruler, Charlemagne , created a great empire across Christian Europe. The division of the realm in the 9th century and the subsequent dissolution of a unified Frankish empire foreshadowed the formation of the modern countries of western Europe.
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Baum Lyman Frank
Buckley William Frank Jr.
Burnet Sir Frank Macfarlane
Capra Frank
Chapman Frank Michler
Frank James Cooper
Duryea Charles Edgar and James Frank
Frank Annelies Marie
Frank Jacob
Frank Robert
Gehry Frank Owen
Johnson Frank Minis Jr.
Kellogg Frank Billings
Knight Frank Hyneman
Leavis Frank Raymond
Leslie Frank
Libby Willard Frank
Loesser Frank Henry
Munsey Frank Andrew
Murphy Frank
Musial Stanley Frank
O'Connor Frank
Robinson Frank
Sinatra Frank
Frank Morrison Spillane
Stella Frank Philip
Wedekind Frank
Whittle Sir Frank
Wright Frank Lloyd
Frank Yang
Zappa Frank
James Jesse and James Frank