Fraxinetum

Fraxinetum or Fraxinet (Arabic: فرخشنيط, romanized: Farakhshanīt or فرخشة Farakhsha, from Latin fraxinus: "ash tree", fraxinetum: "ash forest") was the site of a Muslim stronghold at the centre of a frontier state in Provence between about 887 and 972. It is identified with modern La Garde-Freinet, near Saint-Tropez. The fortress was established by Muslims from al-Andalus. From this base, the Muslims raided up the Rhône Valley, into Piedmont and as far as the Abbey of Saint Gall in Switzerland. Their main business was slave-raiding of Europeans for export to Islamic markets. For a time, they controlled the passes through the western Alps. They withstood several attempts to oust them, but were finally defeated by the combined forces of the Provençal and Piedmontese nobility at the battle of Tourtour in 972.

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Fraxinetumは、アトラスの城の知名度ランキングで世界377位（全3,734件中）、フランスの276件では35位にランクされています。800年に創建され、アトラスの年代判明済みの城の97%より古い城です（8世紀に創建されたアトラス収録の17件のひとつ）。フランスが他とどう比べられるかは、城の統計をご覧ください。

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