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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

abbey of the Burgundian kingdom. In the 10th century, the Saracens of Fraxinet established an outpost near the abbey to control the Alpine passes. In...