The Arab Chronicles, the history of that age, show that Arab awareness of the Franks as a growing military power came only after the Battle of Tours when the Caliph expressed shock at his army's catastrophic defeat.

The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.

The Battle of Tours halts the advance of Islam into Western Europe and establishes a balance of power between Western Europe, Islam and the Byzantine Empire.

The Battle of Tours halts the advance of Islam into Western Europe and establishes a balance of power between Western Europe, Islam and the Byzantine Empire.

Most historians agree that " the establishment of Frankish power in western Europe shaped that continent's destiny and the Battle of Tours confirmed that power.

The Umayyad Caliphate, at the time of the Battle of Tours, was perhaps the world's foremost military power.

The Umayyad forces were not particularly concerned about any of the Germanic tribes, including the Franks, and the Arab Chronicles, the history of that age, show that awareness of the Franks as a growing military power only came after the Battle of Tours.

The CPNZ never had mass influence or real political power, but it did politically influence several generations of radicals and stimulated several important social movements, including Halt All Racist Tours ( HART ) and the Progressive Youth Movement ( PYM ).

Tours of Dinorwig power station are available from a purpose built visitor centre.

Tours of the power station stopped due to security fears after September 11, 2001.

He finally returned to Tours in 578, and when his bid for power failed, he asked his servant to kill him.

However, nearly all historians agree that the Christian victory at Toulouse was important in a macrohistorical sense: it gave Charles Martel badly needed time to strengthen his grip on power and build the veteran army which stood him in such good stead eleven years later at Tours.

The eleven years between Toulouse and Tours without question gave him time to fully secure power, inspire the loyalty of his troops, and, most importantly, drill the core of veterans who stood so stoutly in 732.

Certain Gallo-Roman aristocratic families continued to exert power in episcopal cities ( as in the cases of the Mauronitus family in Marseilles and Bishop Gregory of Tours ).

This became a claim that Charles had literally saved Christianity, as Gibbon and his generation of historians agreed that the Battle of Tours was unquestionably decisive in world history.

Tours inside the actual cheese processing area of the plant were discontinued in 1967 due to health and safety regulations.

Tours inside the actual cheese processing area of the plant were discontinued in 1967 due to health and safety regulations.

Tours of the Vernors plant old and new were major tourist attractions.

Then the king came to the Haye in Touraine and his men had passed the river of Loire, some at the bridge of Orléans and some at Meung, at Saumur, at Blois, and at Tours and whereas they might: they were in number a twenty thousand men of arms beside other ; there were a twenty-six dukes and earls ( Counts ) and more than sixscore banners, and the four sons of the king, who were but young, the duke Charles of Normandy, the lord Louis, that was from thenceforth duke of Anjou, and the lord John duke of Berry, and the lord Philip, who was after duke of Burgoyne ".

On the other hand, at a synod convened by Louis at Tours in September 1510 the French bishops withdrew from papal obedience, and resolved, with Emperor Maximilian's cooperation, to seek the deposition of the pope.

With news arriving of the Battle of Hattin, he took the cross at Tours in the company of other French nobles.

Bede says that Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.

" Antonio Santosuosso points that “ they ( the Muslims ) called the battle's location, the road between Poitiers and Tours, " the pavement of Martyrs ".” However, as Henry Coppée pointed out, " The same name was given to the battle of Toulouse and is applied to many other fields on which the Moslemah were defeated: they were always martyrs for the faith.

Sixteen other parades take place at cities throughout France in: Angers, Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Rouen, Strassbourg, Toulouse and Tours.

At Paris the spirit was called le moine bourré ; at Orleans, le mulet odet ; at Blois le loup garon ; at Tours, le Roy Huguet ; and so on in other places.

In July 2010, Blankenship and the other stakeholders in Oak Island Tours Inc. announced on their website that the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources / Tourism, Culture and Heritage had granted them a temporary Treasure Trove License, allowing them to resume activities until December 31, 2010.

The following year, mobs carried out iconoclasm in more than 20 cities and towns ; Catholic urban groups attacked Protestants in bloody reprisals in Sens, Cahors, Carcassonne, Tours and other cities.

This union produced one son, Apollinaris, and at least two daughters: Sidonius mentions in his letters Severina and Roscia, but a third, Alcima, is only mentioned much later by Gregory of Tours, whom Theodor Mommsen has speculated may be identified with one of his other daughters.

Sidonius's grandson Arcadius, on hearing a rumor that the Frankish king Theuderic I had died, betrayed Clermont to Childebert I, only to abandon his wife and mother when Theuderic appeared ; his other appearance in the history of Gregory of Tours is as a servant of king Childebert.

An other major destination are the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, this World Heritage Site is noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its castles ( châteaux ), such as the Châteaux d ' Amboise, de Chambord, d ' Ussé, de Villandry and Chenonceau, which illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the French Renaissance.

This is confirmed by the implicit approval of St. Gregory the Great and by well attested facts ; in the East, for example, Hilarion, Ephrem, and other confessors were publicly honoured in the fourth century ; and, in the West, St. Martin of Tours, as is gathered plainly from the oldest Breviaries and the Mozarabic Missal, and St. Hilary of Poitiers, as can be shown from the very ancient Mass-book known as " Missale Francorum ", were objects of a like cultus in the same century.

During this period he wrote, among other treatises, monographs on Clement of Alexandria, Hilary of Poitiers and Martin of Tours.

This " virtue " Gregory of Tours and other Christian writers associated with the devil, demons, soothsayers, magicians, pagans and pagan gods, and heretics.

" The other five were by BBC Records, released as Hancock's Half Hour: " The Poetry Society " and " Sid's Mystery Tours ", released in 1980 ; " The Americans Hit Town " and " The Unexploded Bomb " in 1981 ; " The Scandal Magazine " and " The Last of the McHancocks " in 1982 ; " The Sleepless Night " and " Fred's Pie Stall " in 1983 ; and finally " Hancocks War " and " The Christmas Club " in 1984.

Jefferson Partners also operates the Jefferson Tours charter bus service for tours and other group services.

Describing the first reason, he “ portrays himself in the guise of a wandering minstrel, his journey just one in a series of adventures .” The second reason is more religious, explaining in his Vita S. Martini that he took this route to worship at the shrine of St Martin in Tours, visiting other shrines as he went.

Fortunatus wrote panegyrics and other types of poems, including praise, eulogies, personal poems to bishops and friends alike, consolations and poems in support of political issues, particularly those presented by his friends Gregory of Tours and Radegunde.

* Aventura Argentina Tours Info on some of the National Parks and other sites around Salta.

The ICC later committed the Test cricket playing nations to play each other in a programme of matches over a period of 10 years known as the Future Tours Programme ( FTP ).

A major air depot at Colombey-les-Belles ; three other maintenance depots at Behonne, LaTrecey, and Vinets ; four supply depots at Clichy, Romorantin, Tours, and Is-sur-Tille ; and 12 air park squadrons maintained the combat and training forces.

Ulsterbus operate " Day Tours " to other parts of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland mainly shopping and to some tourist attractions.

Also, OGE co-sponsors a Yeungjin Summer College program and is in the process of implementing a new Oaxaca Spanish Language and Culture Tour in Mexico among other Summer Study and Culture Tours.