Fraxinetum or Fraxinet (Arabic: فرخشنيط, romanized: Farakhshanīt or فرخشة Farakhsha, from Latin fraxinus: "ash tree", fraxinetum: "ash forest") was the...

Battle of Fraxinet or Fraxinetum was fought around 20 May 942, between a Hungarian raiding army and the Muslim frontier state of Fraxinet, and ended...

Hungarians retreat to the Gothic March. Battle of Fraxinet: King Hugh of Provence launches an attack on Fraxinet, the Moorish fortress on the Côté d'Azur that...

residents for ransom. The conquering Arabs established the emirate of Fraxinet in 887. Early in 973, the Saracens captured Maieul, the abbot of the monastery...

reign he fought with these Saracen pirates, who had established a base at Fraxinet in 889 and had been raiding the coast of Provence, alarming the local nobility...

under Rodoald. In the 10th century, it was attacked by the Saracens of Fraxinet. After a period as an independent commune, it was ruled by the Counts of...

'the mercy of God') and was part of the area ruled by the Moors of nearby Fraxinet in the ninth and tenth centuries. Centre of the village Mediterranean coast...

their threat, which had been constant since the establishment of a base at Fraxinet. At the Battle of Tourtour in 973, with the assistance of the counts of...

al-Andalus. There was still a Muslim presence north of Spain, especially in Fraxinet all the way into Switzerland until the 10th century. Muslim forces under...

Narbonne was unable to return to France from Rome because the Moors from Fraxinet controlled all the passes in the Alps. Moor pirates operated out of the...

Gibelin de Grimaldi aided William the Good in driving the Saracens of Fraxinet out of the area in AD 973 and was rewarded with the land. The village is...

colonization and occupation, in modern-day France, Switzerland, and Italy, using Fraxinet in the Gulf of St. Tropez as a base for raids and colonisation. The Iberian...

Burgundian rule was interrupted between 942 and 970 by Arab rule based in Fraxinet. Grenoble grew significantly in the 11th century when the Counts of Albon...

In the 10th century, Arabic-speaking Muslims from their Mediterranean Fraxinet base settled in the Valais for a few decades. They occupied the Great St...

organise the fight against the Magyars and the Andalusian pirates based at Fraxinet in Provence. Active, if sometimes dubious, diplomacy paid off. He concluded...

(Nicaea 813, 859 and 880). In 888, Andalusian Muslims set up a new base in Fraxinet near Fréjus in French Provence, from where they started raids along the...

an Arab Muslim colony dominated by the nearby Saracenic settlement of Fraxinet; in 940, Saint-Tropez was controlled by Nasr ibn Ahmad. From 961 to 963...

for control over Baghdad. Battle of Fraxinet Hungarian raiding army defeat the Muslim frontier state of Fraxinet and they continued on their way to Hispania...

The chapters on al-Andalus, Sicily, and the richly cultivated area of Fraxinet (La Garde-Freinet) describes in detail a number of regional innovations...

Provence, a Hungarian army battled with Arabs from the Muslim enclave of Fraxinet, when Conrad I of Burgundy fell on them by surprise and defeated both armies...

Muwallad adventurers from Pechina near Almería established a fortress in Fraxinet, on the Gulf of Saint-Tropez in Provence. They spoke both Latin and Arabic...

range in southeastern France. It is located in the department of Var, near Fraxinet and between Hyères and Fréjus. Its highest point, at Signal de la Sauvette...

sancti Bobonis. He built a castle on a hill opposite the Muslim fortress of Fraxinet and led the Christians of Provence to victory in battle with the Muslims...

the Gulf of Saint-Tropez in Provence. They establish a fortified base at Fraxinet (modern-day La Garde-Freinet). After raiding the surrounding area, the...

converted to Christianity Decisive Hungarian – Pecheneg victory 942 Battle of Fraxinet Principality of Hungary Muslims Hungarian victory 942 Hungarian raid in...

through forests of cork, oaks, and chestnuts. The village was the site of Fraxinet, an Arab settlement of the ninth to tenth centuries. This settlement was...

the end of the 9th century, Muslim Spain installed a military base in Fraxinet since they had led the plundering expeditions in the Alps throughout the...

Al-Andalus conquered several bases in France and established the emirate of Fraxinet. They were eventually defeated and expelled in 975. During the winter of...

Arles. From 890, the Umayyads tried to regain a foothold in France around Fraxinet, in the Massif des Maures. The years 880 and 890 mark a turning point in...

Provence, the Hungarians battle with the Moors from the Muslim enclave of Fraxinet. September 10 – King Louis IV (d'Outremer) dies after a hunting accident...