Kingdom of Africa (Without Islam)

The Kingdom of Africa (Italian: Regno d'Africa, Latin: Regnum Africae) was a state founded by Roger Bosso after the Norman conquest of Carthage (1091). The main motivation for the conquest of the Punic Coast was its strategic position dividing the Mediterranean Sea and the Latin majority population that assured the royal title blessed by pope Urban II.

Thus, Roger I conquered the places of Carthage, Ruspina, Bizerte, Susa and Sfax even though the conquest was not finished until the reign of Roger II (1105–1154) when all the coast from Tabarca in the west to Lebida in the east was controlled by the younger kingdom. However, the Muyedis invaded Africa from the west (1159) and Carthage fell after a long siege (1178) and after that also fell Tripoli and Lebida (1185). Thus, although the kings of Sicily retained the royal title of king of Africa their real power in the former territories was inexistent for half a century.