AHC: Create a majority black-African European country

Sub-Saharan Africans are not the majority phenotype even in North Africa. Even if you could transplant several thousand such people in or near Europe, they would probably be accompanied by many more non-black North Africans.

In Roman era Britain, for example, soldiers in the Numerus Maurorum Aurelianorum regiment would have had as much of a third of it's overall number comprised of Black Africans (or "Ethiopians" called all blacks). And Moorish soldiers weren't even the majority over the other auxiliaries, who came from literally everywhere else in the Roman Empire. As both Roman legionaries and the soldiers the multi-ethnic Auxilia were recorded as settling down and intermarrying with the native population, this would prevent any chance of a homogeneous Black population from taking hold in a region of Europe.

The Almoravid Empire arose from the Sahara region. While it likely had it's fair share of Black African soldiers (and the Lamtuna tribe may have been Tuaregs), their cause was motivated by a religious ideology and had nothing to do with any issue of black identity.
 
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