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Eastern Francia

Country in Western Europe (843–962) Kingdom of the East Franks (Franks of the East)Regnum Francorum orientalium (Latin)843–962East Francia in 843 after the Treaty of VerdunCapitalVarious, including Frankfurt and Ratisbon (Regensburg)Common languagesMedieval LatinOld High GermanOld Low GermanOld FrisianSlavic languagesReligion Chalcedonian Christianity (under the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome)Germanic religionDemonymEast Frankish • East FrankGovernmentMonarchyKing • 843–876 Louis the German (first)• 936–962 (title held until his death in 973) Otto the Great Historical eraMiddle Ages• Treaty of Verdun 843• Treaty of Meerssen 870• Disestablished 962 CurrencyPfennig Preceded by Succeeded by Francia Carolingian Empire Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Germany Part of a series on the History of Germany Topics Chronology Historiography Military Economy LGBT Judaism Women Territorial evolution Historic states (Holy Roman Empire) Monarchs (Queens, Empresses, 1918, Family tree, Austria, Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, Württemberg, Mediatised) Early history Linear Pottery culture Únětice culture Urnfield culture Germanic peoples Migration Period Barbarian kingdoms Frankish Empire Middle Ages East Francia Kingdom of Germany Holy Roman Empire Eastward settlement Early Modern period Sectionalism 18th century Kingdom of Prussia Unification Mediatisation Confederation of the Rhine German Confederation Vormärz Zollverein Revolutions of 1848 North German Confederation German ReichGerman Empire1871–1918World War I1914–1918Weimar Republic1918–1933Nazi Germany1933–1945World War II1939–1945 Contemporary GermanyOccupationOstgebiete1945–1949/1952Expulsion of Germans1944–1950West–East division1949–1990ReunificationNew states1990Modern historysince 1990 Germany portal History portalvte East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of the Carolingian Empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911.

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