Ethnically speaking how much of modern france is related to the Gauls in contrast to the Franks
>>18544784Would like to know this too
>>18544784Franks were a very small minority the majority of french people descend from gauls
>>18544784You can be descended from multiple people and most Frenchers are descended from both
>>18545416This is how it is with all of the migration period tribes. Even the Huns at their peak were maybe 100,000 strong at most. The narrative about barbarian tribes replacing the ancient European populations is very overblown. >>18545419Thread
>>18544784French people are basically entirely "Gauls", being called a Frank in the 6th century territory was akin to how the goons of a Mafia family can be referred to as "the Corleones" if that's the family they work for. If you were a subject who owed allegiance to the Frankish king, you were a Frank, one of his subjects.
French are complete mutts. They're part Celtic, part Germanic, part Imperial Roman (East Mediterranean), part Iberian (in the Southwest). Gauls don't exist anymore.
>>18546390Almost all north French nobles and even clergymen until like the high middle ages had Germanic names, it wasn't just "my boss is X" they named ALL of their kids after their boss
>>18545423Slavs replaced most of the population of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, prolly Serbia, Belarus and Russia
>>18546423To be fair this is also the case for Iberians and Italians, who have majority Germanic names to this day
>>18546432Dunno how true majority is, but I think there is a bit of a difference between majority and almost exclusivity.Clearly they didn't just hate Romans as they kept being Catholic and using Latin, but Frankish ethnic identity seem to have superceded 5 centuries of Roman political control, fairly rapidly at that
>>18546433>Dunno how true majority isI mean you can check for yourself, nearly all the stereotypical spic names are Germanic in origin for example. The only caveat is it's almost exclusively male names
>>18546475>nearly all the stereotypical spic names are Germanic in origin for exampleLol, the most popular Spanish names are Hebrew/Biblical, like Juan, Jose, Manuel, DavidOut of the ten most popular male names, 6 are Hebrew, 3 Germanic and 1 Latin
