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After the Vandal conquest of the Roman Africa province, African Romance started a process of slow disappearance that was to last until the Spanish initiative to reconquer and convert to Christianity the populace of the coast of what is now Algeria and Tunisia. The most important testimony of the existence of the African Romance comes from the XII century Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, who wrote that the people of Gafsa (in south Tunisia) used a language that he called al-latini al-afriqi ("the Latin of Africa"). The Normans when conquering their Tunisian kingdom in the XIII century received help from the remaining Christian populations of Tunisia, and some historians like Vermondo Brugnatelli argue that those Christians still spoke African Romance.
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