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France - Image by Pierre Gay, 2 February 2003 In 486, Clovis
(Chlodowig), King of the Salian Franks from Tournai, defeated in
Soissons Syagrius, the last Rex Romanorum. After having defeated
the Alamans (c.495 and 505/506), the Burgondians (500) and the
Wisigoths (Vouillé, 507), he unified the former Gaul as the
Kingdom of the Franks, which is the origin of the name of
France. The territory which would later be known as pays de
France was much smaller than modern France, being limited in the
south by the rivers Seine and Marne, in the west by the river
Oise, in the north by the river Thève and in the east by the
river Beuvronne. These borders are the origin of the name Île
(Island)-de-France, even if historical Île-de-France rapidly
extended beyond its original borders. Following the share of the
Carolingian Empire in 843, th