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    Blended or Divided? (10 posts)
    Historical Thread 0 Featured August 12 , 2003

    For a long time academic tradition stressed the cultural differences between Celtic and Germanic peoples, based on nationbuilding legends in the Romanesque and Germanic countries. What makes a Gaul a Gaul, and what makes a Germanic a Germanic? Or is even the idea of a Gaul nation on one side and a Germanic nation on the other nothing but a fake myth? ...
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    Charles Martel
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    Author: * Barbel Gepid - 1 Post on this thread out of 39 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Jul 6, 2005 - 13:12

    Charles Martel, won the Battle of Tours in 732, which has been characterized as the salvation of Europe from the Arab menace.

    In the year In 112, Abdul Rahman prepared to invade Gaul.

    His recruits came from Yemen and the Levant.
    Many arrived, and he crossed the Pyrenee range, with and army composed of Arabs and Berbers.

    He made it to Aquitania and Burgundia, captured the city of Bordeaux, and defeated the armies of Charles Martel.

    Charles Martel managed to form an army of Gauls and Germanics, and defeated Abdul Rahman near the river Loire.

    Abdul Rahman was killed in this battle.


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