Editing Austrasia (section)

==Geography==
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Austrasia was centered on the [[Middle Rhine]], including the basins of the [[Moselle]], [[Main (river)|Main]] and [[Meuse]] rivers. It bordered on [[Frisia]] and [[Old Saxony|Saxony]] to the north, [[Duchy of Thuringia|Thuringia]] to the east, [[Alamannia|Swabia]] and [[Burgundy]] to the south and to [[Neustria]] to the southwest. The exact boundary between Merovingian Neustria and Austrasia is unclear with respect to areas such as the medieval counties of [[County of Flanders|Flanders]], [[Pagus of Brabant|Brabant]] and [[County of Hainaut|Hainaut]], and areas immediately to the south of these.

[[Metz]] served as the Austrasian capital, although some Austrasian kings ruled from [[Reims]], [[Trier]] and [[Cologne]]. Other important cities included [[Verdun]], [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] and [[Speyer]]. [[Fulda monastery]], an important royal monastery, was founded in eastern Austrasia in the final decade of the Merovingian period.

In the [[High Middle Ages]], its territory became divided among the duchies of [[Lotharingia]] and [[Duchy of Franconia|Franconia]] in [[kingdom of Germany|Germany]], with some western portions including [[Reims]] and [[Counts and dukes of Rethel|Rethel]] passing to [[kingdom of France|France]].

Its exact boundaries were somewhat fluid over the history of the Frankish sub-kingdoms, but Austrasia can be taken to correspond roughly to the territory of present-day [[Luxembourg]], parts of eastern [[Belgium]], north-eastern [[France]] ([[Lorraine]] and [[Champagne-Ardenne]]), west-central [[Germany]] (the [[Rhineland]], [[Hesse]] and [[Franconia]]) and the southern [[Netherlands]] ([[Limburg (Netherlands)|Limburg]], [[North Brabant]], with a salient north of the Rhine including [[Utrecht]] and parts of [[Gelderland]]).