Fraxinet

Fraxinetum (Arabic Farahsanit, English Fraxinet, today French La Garde-Freinet ) was from 888/889 to about 975 a bridgehead of the Moors in the early medieval Burgundy, near Fréjus in what is now southern France.

The base was the procurement of wood and the slave trade. Initially started as a "private" company by Moorish pirates, a greater influence of the Caliphate of Córdoba is detectable from 940. From Fraxinetum the Moors came to Vienne ( near Lyon, France), Asti (Piedmont, Italy ) and even to St. Gallen ( Switzerland ), which occupied the Alpine passes (Great St. Bernard) and dominated the Provence, Savoy and much of the Switzerland today ( 952-960 ).

The rise of Ostfrankenreiches under the Ottos also led to the strengthening of Burgundy and the conquest of Fraxinetum to about 975 by a Burgundian army and Provencal supported by a Byzantine fleet blockade.