 Thuringii

The Thuringii, or Toringi, also Tursin·logi, cognate of TURIN, Italy but TOURS(IN), France as well, were an early non Germanic people that appeared during the late Migration Period in the Harz Mountains of central Germania, a region still known today as Thuringia.It became a kingdom, which came into conflict with the Merovingian Franks, and it later came under their influence and Frankish control.