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- folk etymology of the word "Tours" is that it comes from Turonus, the nephew of Brutus. Turonus died in a war between Corineus and the king of Aquitaine...
- after hunting in the king's forests without permission. Brutus's nephew Turonus dies in the fighting, and the city of Tours is founded where he is buried...
- city of Tours, attested in the 6th c. AD as apud Toronos (in civitate Turonus in 976, Turonis in 1205, Tors in 1266), and the Touraine region, attested...
- (in The Clocks of Iraz) "The Legend of Captain Oswic's Ghost (told by Turonus the Taverner) (in The Unbeheaded King) "The Tale of Emperor Ishbahar's...