Editing Thuringii (section)

==Ecclesiastical history==
Christianity had reached the Thuringii in the fifth century, but their exposure to it was limited. Their real [[Christianisation]] took place, alongside the ecclesiastical organisation of their territory, during the early and mid eighth century under Boniface, who felled their "sacred oak" at [[Geismar]] in 724, abolishing the vestiges of their paganism.

In the 1020s, [[Aribo, Archbishop of Mainz]], began the minting of coins at [[Erfurt]], the oldest market town in Thuringia with a history going back to the Merovingian period. The economy, especially trade (such as with the Slavs), greatly increased after that.