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Alamannia was the territory inhabited by the Alamanni after their break through of the Roman Limes in 213 . Originally a loose confederation of unrelated tribes, the Alamanni underwent coalescence or ethnogenesis during the 3rd century, and were ruled by independent "kings of the Alamanni" throughout the 4th and 5th centuries, until 496 , when they were defeated by Clovis I at the Battle Of Tolbiac . Until 746 , Alamannia was ruled by Alamannic dukes under Frankish sovereignty. In, 746 Carloman called all Alemannic nobles, numbering several thousands, to a council at Cannstatt , where he summarily arrested, tried and executed them for treason (the Blood Court At Cannstatt ), and for the following century, Alamannia was ruled by Frankish dukes. From 829 , there were tendencies of renewed independence from the Frankish Empire , and the 830s were marked with bloody feuds between Alamannic and Raetia n nobility vying for dominion over the area.

Following the Treaty Of Verdun of 843 , Alamannia became a province of East Francia , the kingdom of Louis The German , the precursor of the Holy Roman Empire .
From 915 , Alamannia was ruled by the Dukes Of Swabia , and the duchy was known equivalently as ''Svebia'' or ''Alamannia''.

The duchy encompassed the area surrounding Lake Constance , the Black Forest , and the right banks of the Rhine , bordering the Alsace , and parts of the Swiss Plateau , bordering on Burgundy . The boundary to Burgundy, from 843 ruled by Lothair I , ran along the lower Aare , turning towards the south at the Rhine , passing west of Lucerne and across the Alps along the upper Rhone to Saint Gotthard Pass . In the north, the boundary ran from the Murg (some 30 km south of Karlsruhe ) to Heilbronn and the Nördlinger Ries . The eastern boundary was at the Lech River . Argovia was disputed territory between the dukes of Alamannia and Burgundy.

The duchy persisted until 1268 , the end of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. From this time, the fates of the territories of Alamannia went separate ways, parts being ruled by the Habsburgs , others by Prince Bishop s and yet others starting a movement towards independence that resulted in the Old Swiss Confederacy .

Important places of Alamannia included Constance , St. Gallen Abbey , Reichenau Abbey , Einsiedeln Abbey , Bregenz , Zürich , Augsburg , Strasbourg (in the Alsace ), Ulm , Kempten .


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