This would be a great POD
What a great idea for a POD, it would change the entire development of North African, kinking it cloder to Europe.
Could it be done? Maybe, particularly if it is done as Duquense suggests in the 1200's, with the rest of Europe to cursade in the Holy Land. But the problem is the idea of the reconquista had very much to do with the defeat of the moors in spain, what is the equivilant?