Definition of Salian

1. Noun. A member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD.

Exact synonyms: Salian Frank
Generic synonyms: Frank

Definition of Salian

1. a. Denoting a tribe of Franks who established themselves early in the fourth century on the river Sala [now Yssel]; Salic.

Definition of Salian

1. Noun. A member of a Frankish people of the 4th century who lived on the Ijssel river. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Salian people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salian

Salah's sternal puncture needle
Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
Salah al-Din Battalions
Salamanca
Salamandra atra
Salamandra maculosa
Salamandra salamandra
Sale
Salekhard
Salem
Salento
Salerno
Salesian
Salesians
Salford
Salian
Salian Frank
Salians
Salic
Salic law
Salicaceae
Salicales
Salicornia
Salicornia europaea
Salientia
Salii
Salim
Salina
Salinan
Salinans

Literary usage of Salian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Varronianus: A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of by John William Donaldson (1860)
"Fragments of the salian Hymns. The salian songs, if any considerable fragments of them had come down to our times, would have furnished us with very ..."

2. History of the Christian Church by George Herbert Dryer (1897)
"His own line reappeared one hundred years later, in the person of Conrad II, and the salian emperors descended from him. Henry I, surnamed the Fowler, ..."

3. The Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu (1793)
"Chap. 13. THE SPIRIT OF LAWS. , CHAP. XIII. Difference between the Salic law, or that of the salian Franks, and that of the ..."

4. A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life by Frederic Austin Ogg (1908)
"The Law of the salian Franks WHEN the Visigoths, Lombards, and other Germanic peoples settled within the bounds of the Roman Empire they had no such thing ..."

5. A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life by Frederic Austin Ogg (1907)
"The Law of the salian Franks WHEN the Visigoths, Lombards, and other Germanic peoples settled within the bounds of the Roman Empire they had no such thing ..."

6. A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life by Frederic Austin Ogg (1907)
"The Law of the salian Franks WHEN the Visigoths, Lombards, and other Germanic peoples settled within the bounds of the Roman Empire they had no such thing ..."

7. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"... CHAPTER IX THE FRANCONIAN, OR salian, DYNASTY [1024-1125 AD] On the other hand, Wipo,c the biographer of Conrad II with whom the line of the ..."

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