Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Jerome's first revision of the Itala ( A. D. 383 ), known as the Roman, is still used at St Peter's in Rome, but the " Gallican ", thanks especially to St Gregory of Tours, who introduced it into Gaul in the 6th century, has ousted it everywhere else.

He is remembered for winning the Battle of Tours in 732, in which he defeated an invading Moorish army.

In addition to these, there is a history of the Franks written in the late sixth century by Gregory of Tours which mentions events in Kent.

The only direct written reference to Eormenric is in Kentish genealogies, but Gregory of Tours does mention that Æthelberht ’ s father was the king of Kent, though Gregory gives no date.

The advance into Western Europe was only stopped in what is now north-central France by the West Germanic Franks under Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732.

* 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.

She is – along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux – one of the patron saints of France.

First among chroniclers of the age is the canonised bishop of Tours, Gregory of Tours.

This location is closer to Bayeux, where Gregory of Tours evokes otherwise the Saxones Bajocassini ( Bessin Saxons ), that were ineffective to defeat the Breton Waroch in 579.

Tradition holds that Ninian was a Briton who had studied in Rome, that he established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, that he named the see for Saint Martin of Tours, that he converted the southern Picts to Christianity, and that he is buried at Whithorn.

He is known for his chronicle of sacred history, as well as his biography of Saint Martin of Tours.

The earliest source of this story is found in chapter eight of Saint Sulpicius Severus's biography of Saint Martin of Tours.

Tours () is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.

Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection ( as perceived by some speakers ) of its local spoken French, and the Battle of Tours in 732.

It is also the site of the Paris – Tours road bicycle race.

Tours is the largest city in the Centre region of France, although it is not the regional capital, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans.

Tours is a good example of a medieval double city.

The recent history of Tours is marked by the personality of Jean Royer, who was Mayor for 36 years and helped to save the old town from demolition by establishing one of the first Conservation Areas.

The city of Tours has a population of 140, 000 and is called " Le Jardin de la France " (" The Garden of France ").

Tours is located between two rivers, the Loire to the north and the Cher to the south.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

" Nonetheless he often spent long periods at Château de Saché, near Tours, the home of his friend Jean de Margonne, his mother's lover and father to her youngest child.

Tours of the home are conducted by knowledgeable volunteer docents from late May until mid-October.

Hampton is also home to the Darlington sports arena, Night Sky Tours and Cedar Park ( a small water / recreational park ).

Tours of the Castle — originally the home of Colorado Springs founder General William Jackson Palmer — are available to the public for a nominal fee, although advance reservations are required.

After stage wins in the other two Grand Tours of 2009, it took the team only three days to win yet another in the Vuelta, where Gregory Henderson took home the flowers.

Finally Metz once finished 18th of Ligue 2 and relegated to National, third tier of French football after 1-1 draw with FC Tours at home match in 20 May 2012.

8e congrès, Tours, 1977, pp. 219-235. http :// www. persee. fr / web / revues / home / prescript / article / shmes_1261-9078_1980_act_8_1_1301

One of three World Golf Championships constituent events, the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, directed by the International Federation of PGA Tours and sanctioned on the PGA and European Tours, is contested at the club, which serves also as a home course for the University of Akron Zips golf team.

* François Rabelais University, Tours

* The public university in Tours, France is named Université François Rabelais.

Tours: Publications universitaires François Rabelais.

* Catherine ( 1452 – 1505 ), married 1461 in Tours François Guy XIV de Montmorency, Count of Laval ( d. 1500 )

* University of Tours

Historian Norman Cantor who specialized in the medieval period, teaching and writing at Columbia and New York University, says in 1993: " It may be true that the Arabs had now fully extended their resources and they would not have conquered France, but their defeat ( at Tours ) in 732 put a stop to their advance to the north.

* Elfers, James E. The Tour to End All Tours, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2003 ISBN 0-8032-6748-7

Off-campus study programs include the Washington Journalism Internship at the National Journalism Center in Washington, D. C .; the James C. Quayle Journalism Intern Program ; Hillsdale College Professional Sales Intern Program ; Hillsdale in Seville, Spain at The Center for Cross-Cultural Study ; the Hillsdale / Oxford Scholars Program ; Hillsdale College / Universität des Saarlandes, at Saarbrücken, Germany ; Hillsdale College Intensive Language Summer School in Tours, France ; Hillsdale College Intensive Language & Culture Summer Program in Würzburg, Germany ; Hillsdale College at Regent's College, London ; Hillsdale College at the University of St. Andrews, at St. Andrews, Scotland ; and the Washington-Hillsdale Internship Program ( WHIP ), where students reside one semester in Washington, D. C., studying Political Science by working 35 – 40 hours per week in government or private sector positions, and take two classroom courses in either American Politics or Public Policy, and either Contemporary American Foreign Policy or National Security.

The controversy over the Bogdanovs ' work began on October 22, 2002, with an email sent by University of Tours physicist Max Niedermaier to University of Pittsburgh physicist Ezra T. Newman.

De Kerckhove received his Ph. D in French Language and Literature from the University of Toronto in 1975 and a Doctorat du 3e cycle in Sociology of Art from the University of Tours ( France ) in 1979.

Tours was the site of the episcopal activity of St. Martin of Tours and has further Christian connotations in that the pivotal Battle of Tours in 732 is often considered the very first decisive victory over the invading Islamic forces, turning the tide against them.

As the center for the popular cult of St Martin, Tours was a pilgrimage site, hospital, and a political sanctuary to which important leaders fled during periods of violence and turmoil in Merovingian politics.

The main pilgrimage sites in the diocese besides the grottos of Marmoutier, are: Notre-Dame-la-Riche, a sanctuary erected on the site of a church dating from the third century, and where the founder St. Gatianus is venerated ; Notre-Dame-de-Loches ; St. Christopher and St. Giles at St-Christophe, a pilgrimage dating from the ninth century ; the pilgrimage to the Oratory of the Holy Face in Tours, managed by Priests of the Holy Face canonically erected on 8 December, 1876.

Other landmarks historically associated with Ardmore include the Autocar Manufacturing Company, an important manufacturer of trucks and jeeps during the world wars, once located on Lancaster Pike on the site of the current Ardmore West Shopping Center, which burned down in a famous conflagration in 1956 ; the Ardmore Theater on Lancaster Pike, now the Philadelphia Sports Club ; Harrison's Department Store, on the north side of Lancaster Pike across from the theater ; Mads Record Shop, rock music mecca since the genre's inception, still going strong ; the Merion Art Center ; the Pennywise Thrift Shop of Jefferson Medical College ; Lyons Hardware Store on Rittenhouse Place ; Rittenhouse Electric, also on Rittenhouse Place ; A. Talone Cleaners at Lancaster and Greenfield ; and luxury travel company SWAIN Tours.

Kilmartin may have been an important early Christian site by reason of its proximity to Dunadd and its dedication to Saint Martin of Tours, as may Kilmichael Glassary.

Tours begin at the Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre in Donore, Co. Meath, from which visitors are bussed to the site in groups.

After entering the Historic Site, visitors can either survey the site for themselves, or participate in guided tours of the Site, a harbour cruise, tours to the Isle of the Dead and Point Puer and evening Historic Ghost Tours.

Among sites that claim a relation to these pseudohistorical figures are a house north of Lafayette, Louisiana, which supposedly belonged to Gabriel, and the grave of Emmeline in the Perpetual Adoration Garden & Historic Cemetery in St. Martin de Tours Church Square, on Main Street, St. Martinville ( the site having been determined for its convenience by local boosters about the turn of the 20th century ).

", Star Tours puts the guest in the role of a space tourist en route to the forest moon of Endor, the site of the climactic battle of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, via the Star Tours travel agency.

* EndorExpress. net ( formerly SWStarTours. net ) a comprehensive Star Tours site

After the battle of the Mortirolo, Charlemagne gave, in 774, all Vallecamonica the powerful French monastery of Tours who collected some tenth also the site of which had already rise to a small cluster of houses.

The formation of 3sixtymedia, a joint venture facilities company based primarily at Granada's Quay Street studios and co-owned by BBC Resources and Granada, spelled the final end for the Tours, as the company moved into the Bonded Warehouse on the site, and started using some of the other buildings ( such as the Starlight Theatre ) for additional studio and warehousing space.

The first park on the site was set out by John of Tours the Bishop of Bath and Wells around 1100, as part of a deer park, and subsequently sold to Humphrey Colles and then Matthew Colhurst.

* School Tours, was the programme by which almost 100, 000 children from various schools had daily visits to the Forum site, with a specially designed activities programme, free of charge.

Gregory of Tours claimed miracles occurred above his grave ; a church was built above the supposed site.

Racan was born at Aubigné-Racan ( in the Sarthe ) into an illustrious noble family ( originally of Italian origin ) from the region of Tours ( site of the Racan fief and the château of La Roche-Racan ), Maine and Anjou.