For two days the latter, whose fatigues had been harassing, kept their position; but on the third day they descended into the plains of Tolosa, which were about to be immortalized by their valor.

The reduction of several towns, from Tolosa to Baeza, immediately followed this glorious victorya victory in which Don Alfonso nobly redeemed his failure in the field of Zalacaand which, in its immediate consequences, involved the ruin of the Mahometan empire in Spain.

Tolosa, Toulouse] is a state in the Province.

Wherefore, having provided corn, procured auxiliaries and cavalry, [and] having summoned by name many valiant men from Tolosa, Carcaso, and Narbo, which are the states of the province of Gaul,

Montanus instances in a Frenchman of Tolosa. 1989.

Tolosa thereupon rose against the Romans, and put the troops which garrisoned it in chains.

[Sidenote: The gold of Tolosa.]

Saturninus had previously proposed allotments in Africa; now he proposed to allot lands in Transalpine Gaul, Sicily, Achaia, and Macedonia, and to supply the colonists with an outfit from the treasure taken from Tolosa.

But Caepio, son, probably, of the hero of Tolosa, stopped the voting by force, and the law was not carried.

Tolosa, the gold of. Tribunate.

In Spain, the Berber forces were beaten in the great Christian victory of Las-Navas-de Tolosa, and in Morocco itself the first stirrings of the Beni-Merins (a new tribe from the Sahara) were preparing the way for a new dynasty.

He arrived at Tolosa about the same time with Lord Lynedoch, and after a sanguinary contest in that town, retreated upon Irunfrom which he was quickly dislodged, and finally recrossed the Bidassao.

Caesar was afraid the Helvetians might turn also against Tolosa and chose to drive them back with the help of the other tribes rather than to fight them after they had effected a reconciliation,which, it was clear, would otherwise be the issue.

Under the name of Tolosa it figures in Roman and mediæval times as a centre of learning and literature, and was for a time capital of the kingdom of the Visigoths.

At Vilches there is a vast plain, and beyond there the open country of Tolosa, where Alphonso VIII., King of Castile, gained the celebrated victory "de las Navas" over the Mussulman army.

(or III.; 1158-1214) the hero of Las Navas de Tolosa, the most decisive defeat which the Arab power in the West had sustained since the days of Charles Martel.