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Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
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Odo the Great
8th-century Duke of Aquitaine
Odo the Great, was the Duke of Aquitaine by 700. His territory included Vasconia in the south-west of Gaul and the Duchy of Aquitaine, a realm extending from the Loire to the Pyrenees, with the capital in Toulouse. He fought the Carolingian Franks and made alliances with the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Moors
Historical term used for various Muslim peoples
The term Moor is an exonym used in European languages to designate the Muslim populations of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of Toulouse (721)
Aquitanian–Umayyad battle in medieval France
The Battle of Toulouse (721) was a victory of an Aquitanian Christian army led by Odo the Great, Duke of Aquitaine over an Umayyad Muslim army besieging the city of Toulouse, led by al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the Umayyad wāli (governor-general) of al-Andalus. The decisive…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)