Strategy life

The name "France" comes from the Latin "Frankia" (lat. Francia) or "country of the Franks" [15], from the name of the Germanic tribes that lived along the lower and middle reaches of the Rhine and are known under the common ethnonym "Franks" (lat. Franci)[ 16]. In the V-VI centuries, the Franks conquered Gaul, where they formed the Frankish state (lat. Regnum Francorum). From the same ethnonym in the 9th century, the name “France” (Francia) was formed, which was first used to designate the territory north of the Seine, then parts of the collapsed Frankish state, later the duchy of France and the region of Ile-de-France (fr. île de France) are known - “ island of France" with its center in Paris, which later became the core of the formation of the state of France[16].