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Dictionary: Sa·li·an   ('lē-ən, sāl'yən) pronunciation
adj.

Of or relating to a tribe of Franks who settled in the Rhine region of the Netherlands in the fourth century A.D.

n.

A Salian Frank.

[From Late Latin Saliī, the Salian Franks.]


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Meaning ‘salty’, the name given to Frankish communities who from about ad 350 settled in Holland and Belgium along the coastal plain and whose royal family, the Merovingians, subsequently became masters of Gaul.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD
  Synonym: Salian Frank


 
 

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