Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the map of modern Europe. Lotliair,the eldest grandson of Charlemagne, held the title of Emperor,and therefore wished to retain the two imperial capitals, Eomeand Aachen. Accordingly, in this division, he kept Italy (thatpart of it which had belonged to the Empire) and a narrowstrip of land from Italy to the North Sea. This northernstrip lay in the valley of the Ehone and in the western valleyof the Rhine, and so included Burgundy and old Austrasia.The rest of the Empire was made into two kingdoms — that ofthe East Franks and that of the West Franks — for Lothairs and Bavaria, with their unmixed Teutonic speech, and the Latinized Lom-bards of Italy or the Romanized Gauls of Aquitaine, with their growingRomance languages (based on the old Latin, but modified by Teutonicinfluences). See Ancient History, §§ 590 and 616, and compare the mapopposite this page with that facing page 14. 1 Special report: Charlemagnes plan for partition in 806 ; see especiallyEmertons Middle Ages, 9-12.
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§9) DISRUPTION OF CHARLEMAGNES EMPIRE. 11 two brothers. Lothairs intermediate strip contained the dis-tricts where the Roman and Teutonic elements had most inter-mingled. Thus the eastern and western kingdoms were leftsharply contrasted, while each in itself was fairly homogeneousin race and compact in territory, and so fitted for independentdevelopment. The eastern kingdom lay beyond the Rhineand was purely German: it was to grow into the Kingdom ofthe Germans. The western kingdom had more mixture ofrace; the Teutonic elements, however, were being absorbedrapidly, and it corresponded fairly with the extent of the newFrench language then just rising.1 It was finally to take thename of France. 9- Continued Disruption of the Middle-land. — The Treaty of Verdunwas followed by many more partitions between the degenerate Carolin-gians ; but the lines it had laid down were in the main to prevail, and toit most of the present states of Western Europe can trace their origin. Lothairs Middlmodernhistoryeur00west

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