Daily Medieval

During the Battle of Toulouse in 721 and the defeat of the Muslim attempt to make inroads to Aquitaine and Gaul, the Muslim general was kil...

On 10 October 732, the next attempt by the Umayyad Caliphate to invade Gaul was stopped at the Battle of Tours. This was the second attempt...

The expansion by the Umayyad Caliphate brought Muslims into the first major conflict with Western Europe in 721 CE. The Umayyads had alread...

After the Rashidun Caliphate came the Umayyad Caliphate in 661 CE, with a dynastic rule starting with Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, the governor ...

The Umayyad Caliphate at the time of Odo This blog has mentioned several men named Odo in the past, but never "the Great." He...