The Battle of Tours: The Turning Point in the Struggle Against Islam
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50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Tours. In the year 732, Christian Frankish and Burgundian troops under Charles Martel clashed with soldiers from the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate. The Frankish victory turned back the Muslim advance into Europe and ensured that Christianity remained the major religion of Europe, in this way shaping the course of history in the region for centuries to come.
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• Understand the historical context that led to the outbreak of the conflict
• Identify the main leaders and forces that took part in the conflict
• Analyse the outcome of the battle and its impact on the course of European history
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Key information
When: 25 October 732
Where: At Moussais (later renamed Moussais-la-Bataille), a municipality of Vouneuil-sur-Vienne between Poitiers and Châtellerault (France)
Context: The Muslim expansion in the West and the fight for power in the Frankish area
Belligerents: The Frankish kingdom and the Duchy of Aquitaine against the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus
Commanders and leaders:
Charles, later nicknamed Charles Martel, a Frankish prince (c. 684-741)
Odo the Great, duke of Aquitaine (mid-7th century-735)
Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, governor of Cordoba (died 732)
Outcome: Frankish victory
Victims:
Frankish and Aquitaine camp: approximately 1 000 deaths
Umayyad camp: approximately 12 000 deaths
Introduction
The Battle of Tours – also known as the Battle of Poitiers – was fought on 25 October 732, a few kilometers from the Poitiers capital, between the Franks led by the mayor of the Austrasian palace, Charles (the future Charles Martel), who had come to assist the Duke Odo of Aquitaine, and the Arab-Berber troops led by the governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi.
Although it is impossible today, due to lack of specific sources, to say with certainty when and where the battle took place and what the forces were, it has long been held that the victory of the Franks marked a definitive end to the Muslim expansion in the West. However, it has already been made clear that the Battle of Tours was, in reality, more of a defensive response to a raid orchestrated by the Arab troops targeting the shrine of St. Martin of Tours than a real initiative to bring a definitive end to