AHC: France to the Ruhr River

No campaign of Russia for Napoleon or at least way less destructive.

Maybe Napoleon dies in it, a peace treaty is forced on a successor (Murat?). Since the French armies are still strong, France is allowed to keep Belgium and the Netherlands in compensation for leaving the rest of Europe alone.
 
With a PoD long before Charlemagne, have the barbarian migrations go differently. Say the Saxons force the Franks south, so their northern border is the Ruhr and their western border the Rhine.

Then "Francia" aka "Frankland" fits the OP's challenge.
 
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