The Umayyad invasion of Gaul was the campaign by which the Umayyad Caliphate, having completed its conquest of the Iberian Peninsula between 711 and 718, pushed north into Gaul in two main phases beginning in 719 and again from 732. Umayyad forces secured control of Septimania in southern Gaul, but their advances further north into the Loire and Rhone valleys were turned back, and in 759 Muslim forces lost Septimania to the Frankish kingdom and withdrew to the Iberian Peninsula, ending the invasion in a Frankish victory.
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CombatantsUmayyad Caliphate and the Emirate of Cordoba against the Kingdom of the Franks 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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