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The Franks had for many years inhabited the basin of the middle and lower Rhine. As a rule they had been friendly with the Romans but in the last quarter of the fifth century they burst into Gaul under their king Clovis, who in a few years made himself master of two thirds of the country. So vigorous were his immediate successors that by the year 550 the Franks held the whole of Gaul, and, turning eastwards, had conquered from other Teutonic tribes the centre and south of what is now Germany. They had comparatively little trouble in retaining their possessions, for they were exposed to no formidable attacks from without, their subjects were unwarlike, and the conversion to Christianity of Clovis and his followers had done much to promote amicable relations between conquerors and conquered.
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