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    The Battle of Tours, also called the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs (Arabic: معركة بلاط الشهداء, romanized: Maʿrakat Balāṭ...
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    Martin and Gregory of Tours were from Tours. Tours was once part of Touraine, a former province of France. Tours was the first city of the silk industry...
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    .. effective in battle". Charles gained a very consequential victory against an Umayyad invasion of Aquitaine at the Battle of Tours, at a time when the...
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  • crucial role in the Battle of Tours, working closely with Charles Martel, whose alliance he sought after the Umayyad invasion of what is now southern...
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    Europe even more than the later—and more celebrated—Battle of Tours (10 October 732, between Tours and Poitiers), but this is highly problematic: for even...
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    dedicated to St Martin of Tours. It is a Scheduled Monument. The Grade I listed site is now operated by English Heritage as 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and...
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    Manowar (redirect from Battle Hymns Tour)
    FINAL BATTLE' FAREWELL TOUR". Loudwire. Retrieved May 25, 2016. "MANOWAR Recruits Drummer From Brazilian Tribute Band KINGS OF STEEL For 'Final Battle' Tour"...
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    Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi (category Medieval Arabs killed in battle)
    action against the forces of Charles Martel in the Battle of Tours on October 10, 732 AD. From the Arab Tihamite tribe of Ghafiq, he relocated to Ifriqiya...
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    the Battle of Toulouse in 721, but they sporadically raided southern Gaul as far as Avignon, Lyon and Autun. A major Umayyad raid directed at Tours was...
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    siege of Constantinople by the Byzantine Empire and the Battle of Tours by the Franks. The tide of Arab conquest came to an end in the middle of the 8th...
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