09.1 The Battle of Tours 732 AD

A History of Europe, Key Battles

Carl Rylett

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🗓️ 20 July 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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The Franks of Charles Martel vs Islamic Umayyad Caliphate.From the mid seventh century the Muslim armies conquered lands from Spain to Persia forming a powerful new world empire. In 732 AD a large Muslim raiding party in southern France was confronted by the leader of the Franks, a Germanic people who over the previous couple of centuries had take control of the area of modern day France. This is the story of the great battle that ensued.More details at www.historyeurope.net

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0:29.0	Place must be 18 or over. After ancient times, late antiquity, we now enter the dark ages of Europe, a period where historians are confident on the broad outliner events, but less
0:56.0	so on many details due to lack of reliable surviving sources.
1:00.0	For instance, the precise date and location of many battles is not known for sure, something
1:06.0	we found earlier in the Battle of the Catalonian Fields, which therefore is known also as the Battle
1:12.5	of Chalon, the suspected location of the battle by some. Today's battle may have happened in the year
1:20.4	AD 732 or AD 733, depending on which source you rely on, and happened somewhere between the French cities of Poitiers and Tor.
1:30.8	Welcome to A History of Europe, Key Battles, the Battle of Tor, also known as the Battle of Poitia.
1:42.0	In the last podcast, we looked at the Battle of Yarmouk, AD 636, an epic six-day struggle between on one side the Muslims from Arabia and on the other side the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire.
1:57.8	The Arabs achieved a decisive victory, striking a devastating blow to the Byzantines.
2:03.6	They then subsequently took control of the whole fertile crescent when they conquered Persia in 644,
2:10.6	and over time supplanted the native Zoroastrian religion with Islam.
2:16.6	All this left the Byzantine Empire dangerously exposed and vulnerable.
2:21.6	Indeed, given a number of options given by Yarmouk, the Muslim generals found it difficult to agree
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