the Goths and Alans. There is Andalusia of the Vandals, Lusitania and the north-west corner of Spain for the Suebi, Burgundy of the Burgundians, France of the Franks, Lombardia of the Langobards and England of the Angles .However, the basic Latin or Latinized element always remained dominant, except in cases where the German invasion was after the Romans have left, as in the case of England. The influence of the Latin language can be seen very clearly in the case of the Franks. One of the German tribes, the Franks, lived around the lower Rhine. They became the rulers of Gaul in the 6th century. Eventually, they ousted the Visigoths, who ruled in southwestern Gaul, and the Burgundians, who ruled in eastern Gaul. Their direct descendants today are probably are the northern French from Pas-de-Calais, Artois and Picardy, the Flemish in Belgium, part of the Dutch and the Germans in the northern part of the valley of the Rhine. When the Carolingian branch of the Franks grabbed power, their seat of government was in Aachen in Germany. In 843 AD they had to divide the country into three because there were three sons to split the inheritance. Although the division was supposed to be equitable, still the results had to reflect the situation on the ground. The end result was that the western part became France, the eastern part Germany and the middle, which included the Low Countries, Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland and Italy. That was the share of the eldest son, Lothair, and it counted then the most valua...
