The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Tours

Also known as City of Tours

  • city
  • Early medieval

The city on the Loire, a Gallic bishopric and later a Frankish strongpoint amid river meadows. Its churches and walls place it near the famous battlefield often named with neighboring Poitiers.

Type
city
Style
Early medieval
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 160
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The city on the Loire, a Gallic bishopric and later a Frankish strongpoint amid river meadows. Its churches and walls place it near the famous battlefield often named with neighboring Poitiers.

Key events

  1. Book 1
    Ch. 240
    Battle of ToursIn 732 CE, Charles Martel defeated an Arab raiding force near Tours, halting the northward expansion of Islam into Western Europe and securing Frankish dominance in Gaul.

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