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| rdfs:label | - Battles of macrohistorical importance involving invasions of Europe
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| rdfs:comment | - Battles of macrohistorical importance involving invasions of Europe, are conflicts where the outcome is considered pivotal to the subsequent history of Europe. They range from the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC to the Battle of Vienna in 1683. In each of these battles, forces from outside the continent threatened the existence of European settlements by invasion, whether by land or by sea. Sheer numbers aside, the conduct of the victorious commanders with respect to tactics and timing helped to turn the tide in each instance despite who their opponent was.
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| Partof | - the Muslim conquests
- the Byzantine-Arab Wars
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| Result | - Aquitanian victory
- Climax of the Byzantine-Arab Wars.
- Decisive Byzantine-Bulgarian victory;
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| Conflict | - Battle of Toulouse
- Second Arab siege of Constantinople
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| abstract | - Battles of macrohistorical importance involving invasions of Europe, are conflicts where the outcome is considered pivotal to the subsequent history of Europe. They range from the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC to the Battle of Vienna in 1683. In each of these battles, forces from outside the continent threatened the existence of European settlements by invasion, whether by land or by sea. Sheer numbers aside, the conduct of the victorious commanders with respect to tactics and timing helped to turn the tide in each instance despite who their opponent was. The outcomes of battles have often been assessed by historians in respect to their influence on the development of polities, states or cultures. This article provides an overview of those battles whose outcome has been judged by at least two modern historians to be of lasting cultural or political importance for European nation-states—or European polities recognized by historians as independent nation-states—and invading outside forces. It does not include the battles where both opposing factions were European, but may contain battles where both opposing forces belonged to a similar culture. The historians consulted on the subject considered European culture and civilization as a development from the Greco-Roman world to the modern civilizations of that area, which did and does not include all of Europe within its defined geographic borders.
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