we all know that germany did it back in the last century.
& i read in an encyclopedia once that the vikings (MY bloodline) was the reason that paris put up a wall in the first place, not like it did 'em much good though...
2007-07-23 16:27:44 · 9 answers · asked by biodegradable insane asylum 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Germany, Britain, Spain, Italy, the Norse, America (Had to fight the word wars somewhere. Funny, it's always in France....), the Swiss (their Army has those big scary knives), Belgians (waffle irons), and Monaco is currently holding strong on France's southern coast.
Spain is currently teaching France on how to properly dominate another country. Andorra currently pays France an annual duty, part of which goes to Spain as payment for helping teach France.
2007-07-23 18:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by Big Ben 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
All France's neighbours when France was not busy invading them. For the last 2000 years everyone in Europe has been busy snipping out pieces of land from their neighbours to lose them again in the next war.
The hardest time was probably during the Spanish Empire when Spain held the Iberian peninsula including the Portuguese empire, southern Italy, Sicily, as well as parts of modern Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands and tried to add France to its bag. Plenty of invasions.
The walls of Paris existed before the Vikings came up the Seine, the Vikings were fought off successfully and did not manage to go further up.
2007-07-24 13:39:12 · answer #2 · answered by Cabal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
~Various Teutons settled France (including the Gauls, the Franks and the Romans) Various other Teutons conquered France (including the Goths, the Visogoths and the Vandals). Another Teutonic group, the Norsemen, were given lands in France - named Normandy in their honor - as a bribe (not very successful) to keep them from taking other French lands. There is no such animal as a historic generic Frenchmen. France is a composite of the various Teutonic tribes, from the Celts and Saxons forward, who settled there and were conquered by or assimilated into later cultures. Much the same as Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy and the rest of western Europe. The Nazi myth of the Aryans is not all that untrue, with the Teutonic tribes leaving Persia (Iran) and ultimately settling (by one tribe or another or whatever combination thereof) everything from the Urals to the Baltic to the Atlantic and, eventually, North and South America.
2007-07-24 03:49:28 · answer #3 · answered by Oscar Himpflewitz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to go back in time, the Romans invaded France when it was called Gaul. They invaded for ten years under Ceasar. The Suebi and other German tribes challenged Rome and tried to cross the Rhine many times during Roman rule.
The Visigoths, vandals, and other Germanic tribes invaded France after Rome. Then came Saxons, Jutes, other various Germanic tribes again (the theme appears to be Germans), various Viking hoards (that gives rise to Normandy from Norsemen), the Holy Roman Empire from 800 onward encompassed parts of France. England assaulted France for over 100 years in the fourteenth Century , and then Germans came back for another round of fun. I am sure I missed a few.
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2007-07-24 01:20:23 · answer #4 · answered by oda315 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who hasn't? England, Spain, Moors, Spain, assorted Italians, If you share a border with another European country (even a water border), odds are you've been invaded and invaded that country way more than twice.
2007-07-23 23:33:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The English did. They took Normandy twice.
2007-07-23 23:34:57 · answer #6 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ignorant American tourists.. every summer..
2007-07-23 23:57:51 · answer #7 · answered by burnaby_sk8rboy 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Arabs too.
2007-07-23 23:33:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
germany again....eu is led by germany--france is its pawn.
2007-07-23 23:31:46 · answer #9 · answered by bullet b 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋