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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAlso, check out our Brief History of Spain<\/a> page!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the loss at Toulouse in 721 AD, the Muslims tried to conquer areas in the mountainous north of Iberia. But, they found themselves outmaneuvered by a small group of Iberians and Visigoth nobles at The Battle of Covadonga<\/a>. The area was not deemed to be of much importance strategically nor with regards to resources or trade and was mostly left alone. The Moorish armies instead set their sights on the much bigger prize of Frankia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 732 AD they had gathered sufficient strength to once again move against the Frankish heartlands. They invaded through Odo\u2019s domain of Aquitaine, passed the city of Poitiers and met Charles Martel and his allies\u2019 armies on their way to the city of Tours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is the story of that encounter from Real Crusades History<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n A later face off at The Battle of the River Berre in 737 AD pushed the Muslims further back from Frankish lands and in the 750s AD Charles Martel\u2019s son, Pepin the Short, conquered the city of Narbonne in Septimania. That ended Muslim rule north of the Pyrenees. The Franks pushed further southwards and conquered areas in north-eastern Iberia as well, effectively creating a buffer zone between the Frankish and the Muslim realms. This conflicted area was later labelled Marca Hispanica or the Hispanic March and is the root of northeastern Spain\u2019s close relations with France, even to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, check out our Brief History of Spain<\/a> page!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Featured image Real Crusades History video from Youtube.<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n We at Find Your Spain publish in-house written articles and provide links to content from other sources which we hope you will find useful, interesting, and informative. Got a tip for us? Drop us a line, comment on a post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you enjoyed this article please like us on Facebook<\/a> or subscribe at FindYourSpain.com<\/a>. It\u2019s free. And, share our sites with friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n The first Moorish setback in Europe Muslim forces set their sights on Iberia in 711 AD, fought the Visigoth king\u2019s armies at Guadalete in southern Andalusia and continued north quickly thereafter. By 721 AD they had conquered the whole peninsula save some minor areas in the north, crossed the PyreneesContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-biztalk-anne","post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-historical-battles","category-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/findyourspain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Battle-of-Tours-Real-Crusades-History-500-220-1.jpg?fit=500%2C220&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourspain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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