East Franconia

Ostfranken denotes in contrast to West Franconia

• the eastern branch of the Germanic tribe of the Franks , the Ripuarians, who settled on the Rhine during the migration in the 5th century, their settlement area is roughly identical to the later part of Austrasia , see Rhine Franconia
• The totality of all Franks named in some English-language sources and genealogies as East Franks (East Franconia) before their split into Sal Franks (West Franconia) and Rhine Franks (East Franconia)
• the eastern half of the Merovingian Empire of the Franks, which was divided from 511 to 613 and 639 to 737, see Austrasia
• the eastern half of the Carolingian Empire, which was finally divided in the 9th century and from which today's Germany emerged, see Eastern Franconia
• the eastern part of the former East Franconian Duchy of Franconia in what is now northern Bavaria, see Duchy of Franconia
• the speakers of the south-eastern dialect group of the Franconian dialects, see East Franconian
• the Schwarzburg connection East Franconia Hanover in the Schwarzburgbund

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