Salian Franks
4th and 5th century Franks in today's Netherlands and Belgium / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Salians" redirects here. For the eleventh-century dynasty, see Salian dynasty. For the Roman priests, see Salii.
The Salian Franks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι, Salioi), were a northwestern subgroup of the early Franks who appear in the historical record in the fourth and fifth centuries. They lived west of the Lower Rhine in what was then the Roman Empire and today the Netherlands and Belgium.
The traditional historiography sees the Salians as one of the main divisions of the Franks alongside the Ripuarians. Recent scholarship, however, has often questioned the ethnic significance of both these terms.[1]