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Map Description
Historical Map of the
Disruption of the Carolingian Empire 843-888
Illustrating
-
Farthest eastward extension of the Carolingian Empire, 843 (
Carolingian Dynasty)
- Tributary Slavic states,
843
- Boundary lines fixed by the
Treaty of Verdun (843).
The area between the dotted purple line on the east and the green line on
the west
and south went to
Louis. That to the west of
the brown line went to
Charles.
That between the brown and green lines, together with Italy, went to
Lothair.
- Boundary line between the East Frankish and West Frankish
Kingdoms fixed by the
Treaty of Mersen (870). The
middle region assigned to
Lothair in 843 was now
divided between
Louis
and
Charles.
- Eastern boundary of the West Frankish Kingdom in 888.
- Boundaries of the Kingdoms of Burgundy in 888.
(See also
Map of the Burgundian Lands 1361-1543)
- Boundary of the Moravian Kingdom under Svatopluk in 888.
- Incidental to the disruption of the Carolingian Empire, the
map shows the rise of the great
feudal divisions in France, Germany, and Italy.
Credits
University of Texas at Austin.
From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.
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