Actually, the first defeat of the Moors took place at the battle of Covadonga, in NW Spain, around 722 A.D. or about 10 years before the battle of Tours. The Spanish kingdom of Asturias was NEVER conquered by the Moors and became the center of resistance leading to the Reconquista.
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Yep. And there was a ship named Covadonga that went back and forth between the Peruvians and the Chileans around the War of the Pacific. Its wheel is still in a museum in Santiago, Chile.
(There is also a well-known seafood restaurant in Miami named Covadonga after this battle.)
Interesting that this battle was several centuries before the better-known El Cid made his appearance.
My wife is a Panamanian whose mother was Spanish, from that area. I have told her that when we go to Spain I most assuredly want to get up to Asturias.