near Cologne in what is now Germany. In the 21st century, scholars no longer generally accept that the term "Salic" in Salic law referred to any specific tribe by the 5th century, and some historians argue that it never did. It is also no longer widely accepted that the two Frankish legal codes imply two distinct Frankish peoples.

Name

Many etymologies for the word Sali have been proposed, but the origins of the name remain uncertain. One of the challenges

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