AHC -With no major changes to the fall of Rome, have western civilisation in Morrocco .

Perhaps a failed Umayyad invasion of Iberia. This leads to with the collapse of Caliphal authority in Ifriqiya, to a Visigothic noble conquering portions of Morocco. Over the course of time, the region is more or less conquered abd considered an appendage go Iberian civilization.
 
One of the post-WRE states in the region pushes south from former Mauretania Tingitana into the coastal regions of modern Morocco. Over the next few centuries, the Moroccan Berbers are converted to Christianity, and a significant portion of them end up speaking an African Romance language (although linguistic assimilation will be a longer process).

Probably one of the Romano-Berber states would be the best candidate (although they wouldn't be the best for leading the area to speak a Romance language), but maybe also a Carthage-based state or an Iberian state would work too. In the long term, it's likely a state with borders resembling any of the medieval Islamic Moroccan states would emerge in the region, independent from either Iberia or Carthage.
 
Gregory the Patrician defeats the Arab invasion of North Africa, pushing back them towards Cyrenaica. Free from Constantinople and safe from initial Arab conquest, North Africa remains a mix of urban Latinate speakers and rural Berbers. The other Berber kingdoms in the area don't turn on the Romans and continue their slow assimilation to African Latinate language. North Africa (up to Tripolitania) remains "Western."
 
Mmh, I'm surprised no one hasn't yet mentioned the possibility of the reconquista continuing over the strait of Gibraltar, or atleast further then Melilla.
 
The Caliphate of Córdoba never collapses or else reunifies and then establishes a lasting peace in Iberia. It sweeps south and captures Morocco, leading to a flowering of Moor culture for centuries.

Religious tolerance and a fairly secular outlook by the Caliphate eventually leads to its widespread acceptance by the Christian European powers, gradually accepted as part of the “West.”
 
The Caliphate of Córdoba never collapses or else reunifies and then establishes a lasting peace in Iberia. It sweeps south and captures Morocco, leading to a flowering of Moor culture for centuries.

Religious tolerance and a fairly secular outlook by the Caliphate eventually leads to its widespread acceptance by the Christian European powers, gradually accepted as part of the “West.”
Probably not, in those days the "West" was defined as Christendom, so since iberia wpwou remain unchristian, it most likely wouldn't be consconsid Western or even European.
 
The Visigoths get their act together and establish a functioning, centralised state. When the Arabs come along, the Visigoths are able to defend themselves, and push into North Africa to secure their southern flank against any Muslim invader. Visigothic North Africa ends up getting assimilated into mainstream Latin Christian culture, and comes to be considered every bit as western as Spain itself.
 

Brunaburh

Gone Fishin'
Spain reconquers the maghreb.

The term "reconquista" is controversial in Spanish historiography, given the people "re-" conquering had never been in control of the territories they were conquering, and the term itself was not used at the time. However, it is absolutely clear that the term "reconquer" can not be applied to people speaking Ibero-Romance languages crossing the straits of Gibraltar and conquering Berber speakers who had lived their for thousands of years.
 

ar-pharazon

Banned
No Islam-but a scenario where a post Romano-Berber state survives in the region expanding to the base of the Atlas Mountains, as far west as Carthage(or modern OTL Tunisia at least) and controlling parts of modern OTL Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.

Or the provinces of Mauretanina Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis. With maybe some more land south of those Roman provinces.

Maybe this Christian Romano-Berber successor state tries to invade Spain but the Visigoths or whoever repulse them or maybe Islam does exist in this scenario but is held back from taking Carthage and western North Africa.
 
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