The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . conquest closed over these, as over the BavariansP further to the east, while ~^ ^^ by this time again, south of the Alps, the Romanpower had been re-esta-blished after the extinc-tion of the Ostrogothic nam^es and Vandalic(Map P). After the LombardThe Frankish Domains, 561, at Invasion of Italy large death of Chlothar. ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ j^^^^ ^^^^^ the western basin of the Mediterranean still remain-ed nominally Roman qand this condition ofiaffairs is exhibited inMap O. Meanwhilegreat changes were inpreparation, affectingthe areas to the eastand to
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . conquest closed over these, as over the BavariansP further to the east, while ~^ ^^ by this time again, south of the Alps, the Romanpower had been re-esta-blished after the extinc-tion of the Ostrogothic nam^es and Vandalic(Map P). After the LombardThe Frankish Domains, 561, at Invasion of Italy large death of Chlothar. ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ j^^^^ ^^^^^ the western basin of the Mediterranean still remain-ed nominally Roman qand this condition ofiaffairs is exhibited inMap O. Meanwhilegreat changes were inpreparation, affectingthe areas to the eastand to the west of theFrankish domains, andthe southern Mediter-ranean coasts. From The Lombards in Italy, c. 568-774 the east the Bulgarians and Avars as well as theolder Slavs press in and oppose the further exten- 92. •- 1 JLrnmv^Jlliii EMPIRE OF CHARLES sion in that direction of Prankish rule, while fromthe south-east to the north-west of the southernMediterranean lands sweeps the irresistible tide ofMuslim invasion. The consequences were mostserious for the Romans and the Visigoths. Theformer lost their recently recovered province ofAfrica and the latter were driven by the victoriousMoors after 711 into the extreme north-easternportion of the Spanish peninsula, while in 720 theyfinally lost to the Franks the district of Septimaniaalong-the Mediterranean coast, which had remainedto them from their once extensive Gallic Charles the Great consolidated his domin-ions, these were bounded at the Pyrenees by thoseof the Caliphate of Cordova, and to the east extend-ed about as far as the ancient Pannonia. To thenorth Charles subdued after a fierce resistance thehitherto pagan Saxons of the Continent, and by thevigour of the forced conversions to Christianity thatmarked his victorious f
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