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Can somebody check whether the claim the the
Battle of Tours-Poitiers occurred in 733 is true? All I have seen so far seems to point to 732, including the same entry for the battle.
The date of 732 is from the Frankish sources, while 733 is from the Mozarabic Chronicle.
Roger Collins, Arab Conquest, p. 91, argues for the latter, while Paul Fouracre, Age of Charles Martel, p. 87, is noncommittal. He points out that either dates works with other known data, the only contradiction is between the sources. I think this information was in the battle article once upon a time.
Srnec (
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04:22, 16 February 2021 (UTC)reply
This is good information. Can you introduce it in the article to explain the difference in dating so it's clearer?
I confirm the date is either 732 or 733, in the year 114 of the Islamic calendar as mentioned by
Alessandro Barbero in this video in Italian on the
battle of Tours-Poitiers.