What is History of France?
[[File:Siege-alesia-vercingetorix-jules-cesar.jpg|thumb|''[[Vercingetorix]] throws down his arms at the feet of [[Julius Caesar]]'' after the [[Battle of Alesia]]. Painting by Lionel-Noël Royer, 1899.]] [[File:Aachen Domschatz Bueste1.jpg|thumb|The [[Bust of Charlemagne]] is located at [[Aachen Cathedral Treasury]]. It is the most famous depiction of the ruler.]] The first written records for the '''history of France''' appeared in the [[Iron Age]]. What is now France made up the most of the area known to the Romans as [[Gaul]]. Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the [[Gauls]], the [[Aquitani]], and the [[Belgae]]. The Gauls, the largest group, were [[Celts]] that spoke what is known as the [[Gaulish language]]. Over the course of the first millennium BCE the Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians established [[Colony|colonies]] on the Mediterranean coast and the offshore islands. The Roman Republic conquered southern Gaul and added it as the [[province]] of Gallia Narbonensis in the late 2nd century BCE. Roman Legions under Julius Caesar conquered the rest of Gaul in the Gallic Wars of 58–51 BCE. After that, a Gallo-Roman culture came out and Gaul was more and more integrated into the Roman Empire. In the later stages of the Roman Empire, Gaul was subject to [[Germanic peoples|barbarian]] sudden attacks and migration, most importantly by the Germanic [[Franks]]. The Frankish king [[Clovis I]] united most of Gaul under his rule in the late 5th century, preparing the conditions for Frankish control in the region for hundreds of years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ogden.basic-english.org/ghos5.html |title=V. THE MIDDLE AGES |access-date=2021-09-17 |archive-date=2021-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917110828/http://ogden.basic-english.org/ghos5.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Frankish power reached its fullest extent under [[Charlemagne]]. The medieval Kingdom of France came out from the western part of Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, known as West Fra