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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Archbishops of Tours, Bishops of Tours, Buildings and structures in Tours, Counts of Tours, History of Tours, University of Tours, Battle of Tours, Gregory of Tours, Martin of Tours, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours, Livre tournois, John Lesley, Alessandro Farnese, Gatianus of Tours, Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cuce de Boisgelin, Georges d'Armagnac, Andre Vingt-Trois, Tours Cathedral, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Hildebert, Guillaume-Rene Meignan, The Ian Dury Tribute, Francois Rabelais University, Saint Perpetuus, Odo II, Count of Blois, Theobald III, Count of Blois, Jardin botanique de Tours, Odo I, Count of Blois, Theobald I, Count of Blois, Carlo Domenico del Carretto, Brice of Tours, Louis-Mathias, Count de Barral, Gare de Tours, Helie de Bourdeilles, Charles-Theodore Colet, Diables Noirs de Tours, Jean d'Albert, 12th duc de Luynes, Jean Marcel Honore, Francois-Nicholas-Madeleine Morlot, Rolland-Pilain, Etienne de Poncher, Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, Volusianus of Tours, Philippe d'Albert, 11th duc de Luynes, Philippe d'Albert, 13th duc de Luynes, Guy of Roye, Eustochius, Beaumont-les-Tours, Saint Herbert, Turones, Robert II of Tours, Eufronius. Excerpt: The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), also called the Battle of Poitiers and in Arabic: (ma'arakat Balaṭ ash-Shuhada) Battle of Court of the Martyrs, was fought in an area between the cities of Poitiers and Tours, located in north-central France, near the village of Moussais-la-Bataille, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Poitiers. The location of the battle was close to the border between the Frankish realm and then-independent Aquitaine. The battle pitted Frankish and Burgundian forces under Austrasian Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by 'Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of...