Fraxinetum
Var, France
No longer standing
Demolished or destroyed.
Fraxinetum was a Muslim stronghold in Var, France, identified with modern La Garde-Freinet near Saint-Tropez, and established by Muslims from al-Andalus. From this base, raiders struck up the Rhône Valley, into Piedmont, and as far as the Abbey of Saint Gall, and their main business was slave-raiding of Europeans for export to Islamic markets. The stronghold was finally defeated at the battle of Tourtour in 972 by the combined forces of the Provençal and Piedmontese nobility.
- Built
- Type
- state, principality
- Place
- Var, France
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