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The Battle of Tours, [6] also called the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs (Arabic: معركة بلاط الشهداء, romanized: Maʿrakat Balāṭ ash-Shuhadā'), [7] was fought on 10 October 732, and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul.
The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from autumn of 87 BC to the spring of 86 BC. [5] The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic, commanded by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix on the one hand, and the forces of the Kingdom of Pontus and the Athenian City-State on the other.
of Athens and all the other gods to guard and ward off the barbarian from the land; and that the Atheni-ans themselves and the foreigners who dwell in Athens shall deposit their children and wives in Troizen. . . . . . . . . . the patron of the land, and old people and goods in Salamis. That the treasurers and priestesses on the Acropolis
Bataille de Poitiers en Octobre 732 by Charles de Steuben depicts Charles Martel defeating Abd Al Rahman Al Ghafiqi at the Battle of Tours. 10 October. Charles Martel defeats the Moorish forces led by Abd al-Rahman at the Battle of Tours. [41] 735 (Date unknown). Uqba ibn al-Hajjaj invades Gaul and is stopped by Charles Martel. [42] 737 (Date ...
This victory, coincident with the Frankish victory at Tours (732), limited Islam's western expansion to the southern Mediterranean world." [61] Thus the historian John B. Bury called 718 "an ecumenical date", while the Greek historian Spyridon Lambros likened the siege to the Battle of Marathon and Leo III to Miltiades. [62]
Battle of Ankara (a.k.a. Battle of Angora) – 1402 – Timur's Invasion of Turkey; Battle of Antietam – 1862 – American Civil War; Battle of Antioch (218) – Inter-Roman battle; Battle of Antioch (1097) – First Crusade; Siege of Antioch (1268) – Crusades; Battle of Antwerp (1584) – Dutch Revolt; Battle of Antwerp (1832) – Ten Days ...
During the first Persian invasion of Greece, he fought at the Battle of Marathon [3] (490 BC), and may have been one of the ten Athenian strategoi (generals) in that battle. In the years after Marathon, and in the run-up to the second Persian invasion of 480–479 BC, Themistocles became the most prominent politician in Athens.
The siege of Athens can refer to any of the following battles: Persian sack of Athens (480 BC) - Amid which the Persians besieged a group of holdouts in the Acropolis; Siege of Athens (404 BC) - Last battle in the Peloponnesian War; Siege of Athens (287 BC) - Siege by Demetrius I of Macedon