Neustria


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Neus·tri·a

 (no͞o′strē-ə, nyo͞o′-)
The western part of the kingdom of the Merovingian Franks from the sixth to the eighth century, in present-day northwest France. It engaged in almost constant warfare with Austrasia, the eastern portion of the realm. After 912 the name was applied to Normandy.

Neu′stri·an adj. & n.
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Neustria

(ˈnjuːstrɪə)
n
(Placename) the western part of the kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, formed in 561 ad in what is now N France
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Neus•tri•a

(ˈnu stri ə, ˈnyu-)

n.
the W part of the Frankish kingdom, corresponding roughly to N and NW France.
Neus′tri•an, adj.
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The part of Charles the Younger included Neustria and Austrasia, and thus was unusually large as compared to the lots of other sons.
Brevibacillus agri, a pathogenic bacterium of Malacosoma neustria (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae).
He defeated Neustria (a Frankish Kingdom in the western part of what is now France) in 716 and again in 717, beat the Saxons in 718, occupied Friesland in 719, and beat the Saxons a second time in 720.
Por exemplo, a mortalidade de Malacosoma neustria (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) por NPVMn pode ser reduzida em ate 50% apos uma chuva de 20mm em 10 minutos e chegar a uma eficiencia de apenas 10% apos uma chuva de intensidade de 300mm em 30 minutos (JANKEVICA et al., 1998).
(55) This suggests that Aldebert was active in Neustria, whereas Clemens was located somewhere in Austrasia.
The presence of some 20 Norse-derived terms in the Anglo-Norman French of the passage studied above is ample proof of such transfers in the centuries following the Norsemen's occupation and settlement of Neustria. Many of these same Norse termini technici may have had an impact, less well documented, on the Old English of the Danelaw, an impact strengthened by the later import of Norman French to Britain, and then made newly evident in the emergence of Middle English from this complex linguistic mix.
The Belgian historian Adriaan Verhulst speculates that these are the forebears of the late Carolingian regional markets in the Low Countries and in Charles the Bald's kingdom of Neustria. In England, they may be the harbingers of the burhs, the fortified towns which formed the fabric of King Alfred's renewal of his kingdom once he had defeated the Danes.
If we really want to believe that Norman Jews were once peasants, then their ancestors might reasonably be surmised to be Jews drawn to Carolingian Neustria during the heyday of Jewish activity in the ninth century.