Editing Neustria (section)

==Name==
The name ''Neustria'' is mostly explained as "new western land",<ref>y J. B. Benkard, ''Historical Sketch of the German Emperors and Kings'' (1855), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q6jAlIo5c44C&pg=PP18 p.2 ];
e.g. <!--it seems to be the most widely adopted interpretation in recent publications - doesn't mean it is correct, these are just authors that copy the meaning unthinkingly, without awareness that other suggestions exist. Still looking for a philological reference that contains an actual argument for either possibility-->
Will Slatyer, ''Ebbs and Flows of Ancient Imperial Power, 3000 BC - 900 AD'' (2012), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ns4IInA8x9IC&pg=PA323  p. 323];
{{cite book |first=Edward |last=James |author-link=Edward James (historian) |title=The Franks |series=The Peoples of Europe |location=Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Basil Blackwell |year=1988 |isbn=0-631-17936-4 |page=232}}</ref>
although Taylor (1848) suggested the interpretation of "northeastern land".<ref>'"Ni-oster-rike" [That is, Northeastern kingdom.]'<!--completely flawed both phonologically and semantically [to the northeast of *what*?], but not for us to criticise, find a philological reference -->
{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=William Cooke |title=A Manual of Ancient and Modern History |date=1848 |publisher=D. Appleton |location=[[New York Public Library]] |page=[https://archive.org/details/manualofancientm00tayluoft/page/342 342] |url=https://archive.org/details/manualofancientm00tayluoft|quote=Oster-rike. }}</ref>
''[[Nordisk familjebok]]'' (1913) even suggested "not the eastern land" (''icke östland'').<ref>Meijer et al. (eds.), ''Nordisk familjebok'', Ny, rev. och rikt illustrerad upplaga (1913), p. 841.</ref> [[Augustin Thierry]] (1825) assumed ''Neustria'' is simply a corruption of ''Westria'', from ''West-rike'' "western realm".<ref>Augustin Thierry, ''History of the Conquest of England by the Normans'' (1825), [https://books.google.com/books?id=xSGP319ZyHQC&pg=PA55  p. 55].</ref> In any case, ''Neustria'' contrasts with the name ''[[Austrasia]]'' "eastern realm".
The analogy to ''Austrasia'' is even more explicit in the variant ''Neustrasia''.<ref>''Neustrasia'' appears to be preferred by some authors writing in [[Neo-Latin]], e.g. by [[Caesar Baronius]] (d. 1607);  [[Augustin Theiner]] (ed.) ''Caesaris S.R.E. Card. Baronii'' t. 11,  (1867), [https://books.google.com/books?id=MhpJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA583  p. 583].</ref>

''[[Neustria (Italy)|Neustria]]'' was also employed as a term for northwestern Italy during the period of [[Lombards|Lombard]] domination. It was contrasted with the northeast, which was called Austrasia, the same term as given to [[Austrasia|eastern Francia]].