The SalianFranks, also called the Salians (Latin: Salii; Greek: Σάλιοι, Salioi), were a northwestern subgroup of the early Franks who appear in the historical
historians into two groups – the SalianFranks to the west, who came south via the Rhine delta; and the Ripuarian or Rhineland Franks to the east, who eventually
river in modern Germany. Their western neighbours were the Salii, or "SalianFranks", who were named already in late Roman records, and settled with imperial
SalianFranks were allowed to settle as foederati in Texandria. After the Roman government in the area collapsed in roughly the year 406, the Franks expanded