Kingdom of the East Franks Regnum Francorum orientalium (Latin) | |||||||||||||
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| 843–962 | |||||||||||||
 East Francia in 843 after the Treaty of Verdun | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Various, including Frankfurt and Ratisbon (Regensburg) | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Medieval Latin Old High German Old Frisian Old Dutch Old Low German Slavic languages | ||||||||||||
| Religion | |||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | East Frankish • East Frank | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
| King of the Franks | |||||||||||||
• 843–876 | Louis the German (first) | ||||||||||||
• 936–962 (title held until his death in 973) | Otto the Great | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||
| 843 | |||||||||||||
| 870 | |||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 962 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Pfennig | ||||||||||||
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| History of Germany |
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East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of Charlemagne's empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911. It was created through the Treaty of Verdun (843) which divided the former empire into three kingdoms.[a]
The east–west division with the Treaty of Verdun in 843, enforced by the Germanic-Latin language split, "gradually hardened into the establishment of separate kingdoms",[1] with East Francia becoming (or being) the Kingdom of Germany[b] and West Francia becoming the Kingdom of France.[2][3]
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- ^ Bradbury 2007, 21: "... division which gradually hardened into the establishment of separate kingdoms, notably East and West Francia, or what we can begin to call Germany and France."
- ^ Goldberg 2006, 6: "Louis [the German's] kingship laid the foundations for an east Frankish kingdom that, in the eleventh century, was transformed into the medieval Kingdom of Germany".
- ^ Reuter 2006, 270.