The Battle of Tours (10 October 732), also called the Battle of Poitiers and, by Arab sources, Battle of the Palace of the Martyrs (, transliterated as ma'arakat Balâṭ ash-Shuhadâ) was fought in an area between the cities of Poitiers and Tours, in north-central France, near the village of Moussais-la-Bataille, about northeast of Poitiers. The location of the battle was close to the border between the Frankish realm and then-independent Aquitaine. The battle pitted Frankish and Burgundian forces under Austrasian Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by 'Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus.