Franconia information

Franconia (German: Franken) is a historic region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria and the area to its immediate west. The name survives in the Bavarian administrative regions of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken), Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken), and Upper Franconia (Oberfranken), but the original region extended further west to Speyer, Mainz, and Worms (west of the Rhine).
Franconia was one of the five original "younger" stem duchies that grew up in the Holy Roman Empire in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. The tribal nature of the region consisted in that it contained the Frankish territories east of the Rhine. (...) more....

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