oct 10, 732 - Battle of Tours

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The Battle of Tours, also called the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs, was fought on October 10, 732, and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul.

This battle stopped the northward advance of Islam from the Iberian peninsula, and is considered by most historians to be of macrohistorical importance, in that it halted the Islamic conquests, and preserved Christianity as the controlling faith in Europe, during a period in which Islam was overrunning the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires.

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