AUSTRASIA


Meaning of AUSTRASIA in English

or Ostrasia

Early medieval European kingdom.

During the Merovingian dynasty (6th–8th centuries AD), it was the eastern Frankish kingdom and Neustria was the western kingdom. Austrasia covered present-day northeastern France and areas of western and central Germany; its capital was at Metz . The region was the power base of the early Carolingian mayors of the palace, one of whom, Pippin III , deposed the last Merovingian king in 751 and founded the Carolingian dynasty . The dynasty's heartland, Austrasia, was an important region in the empire established by Charlemagne .

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