AHC: Non-Spanish Reconquista

Slightly off topic but do you think an Occitan reconquista of Iberia would be possible.
It happened OTL.

Half (if no more) of the Reconquista campaign up to the XII were made with occitan lords.

Also settlement, critically in Aragon and Valencia, where people considered themselves "Limosins" (aka, western occitans) up to XV.

Also OTL question, isn't the reason there is a large basque influence in Spain a result of the fact that all the Christian kingdoms were squeezed up in 'Green Spain'? Or is it just because Jiménez were Basque?

Both. Remaining Independent/Autonomous Visigoths lords at the VII (except in Septimania/Barcelone) were pushed in superficially romanized aeras. The population have a really important Vascon basis and elites. But it's true for the Gascony too.

What helped, it's the formation of centres of power in such aeras and made by visigothic lords with an huge vascon/cantabrian ascendency.
 
for a brief time the muslim caliphes did own sicily until the norman invasion of the island that lead to the (norman) kingdom of naples
 
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