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What if the conquests of Roger III, King of Sicily and self proclaimed "King of Africa" managed to stick in the 1140s, and the Normans then expanded out across modern Tunisia and Libya? What would the impact be on the Reconquista and the Crusades of a well organised and belligerent Christian state right in the middle of North Africa? Could a Sicilian based state concievably hold these regions indefinitely?
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