Franconia
Full definition of Franconia
Proper noun
- (geography, historical) A historic region of Germany comprising the northern area of modern Bavaria and lands to its immediate west.
- 1759, George Sale et al., The Modern Part of an Universal History, : History of the German Empire, page 2:Since the reign of Charlemagne, this country is divided into High and Low Germany: the firſt, towards the ſouth, comprehending the Palatinate of the Rhine, Franconia, Suabia, Bavaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Auſtria, Carinthia, Carniola, Stiria, Tyrol, the Swiſs, and the Griſons...
