Battle of the River Berre

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The Battle of the Berre found between 737 Frankish forces under the command of Charles Martel and Arab troops from Al -Andalus place, who had been sent to raise the siege of Narbonne. The battle took place at the mouth of the River Berre (now Aude department ).

The Battle

Martell benefited from the geography and surprised the Arabs at the mouth of the river during the unloading of the troops. The Arabs were the first to unload the cavalry, when the Franks attacked. The Franks pursued the Arabs in the surrounding lagoons and there was a bloodbath that lasted from the river mouth until after Donos and Durban.

Follow

Martel's troops destroyed then the settlements of Septimania, including Nimes, Agde, Béziers and Maguelonne. Despite this victory, it was in the same year again necessary to raise an army in order to gain control of the region, as the Arabs again sent forth an army. However, these withdrew when they learned that Martell had an alliance concluded with the Lombards. The battle that prevented the Arabs were able to spread in the region.

Swell

• Paul Fouracre: The Age of Charles Martel. Longman, Harlow others 2002, ISBN 0-582-06476-7, p 97 ( The Medieval World).
• Ann Christy: Christians in Al -Andalus. ( 711-1000 ). Curzon, Richmond, 2002, ISBN 0-7007-1564-9, p 28 ( Culture and Civilization in the Middle East).
• PM Holt, Ann KS Lambton, Bernard Lewis: The Cambridge History of Islam. Volume 1 A: The central Islamic lands from pre - Islamic times to the First World War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1977, ISBN 0-521-29135-6, p 95

• Battle ( Germanic )
• Battle of the Islamic expansion
• Franconia
• 737