Neustria

Also known as Neustrasia

Neustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the eastern Frankish sub-kingdom, Austrasia. It initially included land between the Loire and the Silva Carbonaria, in the north of present-day France, with Paris, Orléans, Tours, Soissons as its main cities.

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Neustria was the western region of the early medieval Frankish Kingdom, centered around areas in what is now northern France with major cities like Paris and Tours. It matters as a key territorial division of Frankish power, existing in contrast to the eastern sub-kingdom of Austrasia and playing an important role in Early Medieval European political history.

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Country.native_name: Neustria, Neustrasia
Country.conventional_long_name: Kingdom of Neustria
Country.common_name: Neustria
Country.era: Early Middle Ages
Country.status: Part of Kingdom of the Franks
Country.government_type: Feudal hereditary monarchy
Country.event_start: Battle of Soissons
Country.year_start: 486
Country.event_end: Capetian dynasty established
Country.date_end: 1 June
Country.year_end: 987
Country.p1: Kingdom of Soissons
Country.s1: Kingdom of France
Country.image_map: Francia 714.png
Country.alt_map: Location of Neustria
Country.image_map_caption: Neustria (northwest) in 714, surrounded by Austrasia, Aquitaine and Burgundy
Country.capital: Soissons
Country.official_languages: Latin

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Commons category: Neustria
inception: 0511-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 0751-00-00

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Name
Merovingian kingdom
Carolingian subkingdom
Carolingian march
Merovingian kings
Mayors of the palace
Carolingian sub-kings
Robertians
Historiography
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The same term later referred to a smaller region between the Seine and the Loire rivers known as the regnum Neustriae, a constituent subkingdom of the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia. The Carolingian kings also created a March of Neustria which was a frontier duchy against the Bretons and Vikings that lasted until the Capetian monarchy in the late 10th century, when the term was eclipsed as a European political or geographical term.