Stelle Galliam quoque Narbonensem per duce...; (Chronica Byzantina-Arabica (741 - 743), Chroniques Anni 741, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §42 (p. 322-23)) [5628]

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Keywords	Keyword: dux (duke), [wurzel: duc] Keyword: exercitus, [wurzel: ] Ethnonym: Franci, [wurzel: Franc] Region: Gallia Narbonnensis, [wurzel: Galli Narbonens] Ethnonym: Sarraceni, [wurzel: sarracen] Region: Tolosam (Toulouse), [wurzel: Tolos]
ID	5628
Text	Chronica Byzantina-Arabica (741 - 743) Anonymous - History
Quotation	Galliam quoque Narbonensem per ducem exercitus Zema nomine suam facit gentemque Francorum frequentibus bellis stimulat. Atque in congruenti uirtute iam dictus dux exercitus Tolosam usque peruenit, eamque obsidione cingens, fundis et diuersis generum macinis expugnare conaui. Francorum gentes, tali de nuntio certe, apud ducem ipsius gentis eudonem nomine congregantur. Apud Tolosam utrumque exercitus acies graui dimicatione confligunt. Zema, ducem exercitus Sarracenorum, cum parte exercitus sui occidunt, reliquum exercitum per fugam lapsum sequuntur.
Translation	Also he made Gallia Narbonensis his own through the leader of the army called Mazlema and he agitated the people of the Franks with frequent wars. And with inconsistent virtue the aforementioned leader of the army got all the way up to Toulouse, and surrounding it with siege he tried to take it by storm through different kinds of siege equipment. The peoples of the Franks, informed of this development, gathered around a leader of the same people called Eudon. And thus gathered they reached Toulouse. At Toulouse both armies clashed in a grave battle. They killed Zema the leader of the army of the Saracens together with part of his army. They pursued the remainder of the army that collapsed through flight. (Al-Tamimi, trans., “Byzantine-Arabic Chronicle”, 2019)
Summary	Here the Chronica Byzantina Arabica recounts the battle of Toulouse in 721.
Quotation source	Chroniques Anni 741, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §42 (p. 322-23)
Temporal Coverage	721 - 721
Associated use case(s)	An Iberian View on the Early Muslim Conquests. Byzantium, the Arabs, and Hispania in the First Christian-Iberian Chronicles After the Fall of the Visigothic Kingdom
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