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Gaul was the name that the Romans gave to the area. At the fall of the Roman Empire, the Germanic tribe of the Franks expanded west and south-west, first towards the area of Paris, and eventually took over the entire area of modern-day France. The country became known as Francia, the 'land of the Franks'. The oldest known instance of writing of the name is the treaty of 843 (parting of the empire of Charles the Great).

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