Battle of Tours
battle · 732 AD
Battle of Tours, a battle recorded 732 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- battle
- Date
- October 732 AD
- War
- Umayyad invasion of Gaul
- Side 1
- Frankish Kingdom — led by Charles Martel
- Side 2
- Umayyad Caliphate — led by Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi
- Result
- Frankish victory
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 732 AD | — | medium confidence | no observation date recorded | Fought somewhere between Tours and Poitiers; the exact field is unknown. |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)