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We all know the Carolingian Kingdom of italy that existed around 843-961, and how it got annexed into the holy roman empire after Otto I took rome and got crowned there
But what if the kingdom of italy prospered? What if the italian house of Kaarling had "italianized" themselves and united the peninsula+sicily+corsega and Sardegna?
according to this 870 the Carolingian Kingdom of italy even held part of southern france, all the way to Marselle:
And the moors have already invaded southern italy in the 870s, with a PoD having the moors also taking the byzantine provinces in southern italy and the italians pushing the moors before the byzantines got the chance of capturing it we can have a pretty probable PoD