Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . The Mohammedans 71 cross into Gaul. For some yearsthe Duke of Aquitaine kept themin check; but in 732 they col-lected a large army, defeated theduke near Bordeaux, advancedto Poitiers, and then set out forTours. Here they met the army ofthe Franks which Charles theHammer (Martel), the kingschief minister, had brought to-gether to meet the new know very little indeed ofthis famous battle of Tours, ex-cept that the Mohammedanswere repulsed, and tha
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . The Mohammedans 71 cross into Gaul. For some yearsthe Duke of Aquitaine kept themin check; but in 732 they col-lected a large army, defeated theduke near Bordeaux, advancedto Poitiers, and then set out forTours. Here they met the army ofthe Franks which Charles theHammer (Martel), the kingschief minister, had brought to-gether to meet the new know very little indeed ofthis famous battle of Tours, ex-cept that the Mohammedanswere repulsed, and that theynever again made any seriousattempt to conquer westernEurope beyond the retired to Spain and theredeveloped a great and prosper-ous kingdom, far in advance ofthe Christian kingdoms to thenorth of them. Some of the buildings whichthey erected soon after theirarrival still stand. Among theseis the mosque at Cordova withits forest of columns and also erected a great towerat Seville (Fig. 22). This hasbeen copied by the architects of 1 The great mosque, which the Mo-hammedan rulers built at Cordova on thes
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