Northern Franconia

In contrast to southern Franconia, Northern Franconia refers to

• a non-administrative geographic region that includes the northern Bavarian administrative districts of Lower Franconia and Upper Franconia, i.e. the northern part of the actual region of East Franconia without Middle Franconia
• a synonym for the term southern Thuringia that was occasionally used in the 1990s and expresses the cultural-spatial allocation .
• the speakers of a Franconian dialect in northern Bavaria, southern Thuringia (Thuringia south of the Rennsteig) and southwest Saxony (Vogtland), see East Franconian dialect group
• Northern French, that group of French crusaders who came from the northern part of the kingdom (directly subordinate to the capital Paris), for example Godfrey of Bouillon. (From the point of view of their Muslim opponents, all French and German crusaders were just "Franks")

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