Regnvm Tvringorvm
Thuringii

General informations
The Thuringii established an empire in the late 5th century. It reached its territorial peak in the first half of the 6th before it was conquered by the Franks in 531–532. Examination of Thuringian gravesites reveal cranial features which suggest the strong presence of Hunnic women or slaves, perhaps indicating that many Thuringians took Hunnic wives or Hunnic slaves following the collapse of the Hunnic Empire.[2] There is also evidence from jewellery found in graves that the Thuringians sought marriages with Ostrogothic and Lombard women.

After their conquest, the Thuringii were placed under Frankish duces (dukes), but they rebelled and established themselves independently again by the late 7th century under Radulf. Towards the end of this century, parts of Thuringia came under Saxon rule.
By the time of Charles Martel and Saint Boniface, they were again subject to the Franks and ruled by Frankish dukes with their seat at Würzburg in the south. Under Martel, the Thuringian dukes' authority was extended over a part of Austrasia and the Bavarian plateau. The valleys of the Lahn, Main, and Neckar rivers were included. The Raab formed the southeastern border of Thuringia at the time. The Werra and Fulda valleys were within it also and it reached as far as the Saxon plain in the north. Its central location in Free Germany beyond the Rhine was the reason it became the point d'appui of Boniface's mission work.
The Thuringii had a separate identity as late as 785–786, when one of their leading men, Hardrad, led an abortive insurrection against Charlemagne. The Carolingians codified the Thuringian legal customs (but perhaps did not use them extensively) as the Lex Thuringorum and continued to exact a tribute of pigs, presumably a Merovingian imposition, from the province. In the 10th century, under the Ottonians, the centre of Thuringian power lay in the northeast, near Erfurt. As late as the end of the 10th century, the porcine tribute was still being accepted by the King of Germany.

Thuringii - civilized or barbarians?
Well, that's an interesting question. Of course, several tribes or germanic kingdoms were still barbarians or at least they kept their barbarian-traditions. The Saxons and the Thuringii are 2 of them. On the other side it would also be a-historic to show them as a tribe without progress in the last 150 years. The Thuringii were able to build bigger cities, they adopted a modern structure for ruling their kingdom. Germany was still a country with deep woods. Communications between bigger cities was always disturbed by criminal outlaws and other tribes.

The army was mainly composed of peasants, one the other side the house troops of noble men were very specialized. A first step into the feudalism of the medieval.