Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
Getting past the Libyan desert and the empty gulf before it is AFAIK somewhat easier said than done, mind you, especially if the locals are being uncooperative. The distance from one end of the Med to the other can be surprisingly long in many ways, and its eastern and western halves tended to have considerable trouble getting to the other effectively.
It appears you somehow miss my point. My point, as I stated before, was that the Moors since fall of Ummayad was no longer subject to control or has any kind of support from "central government" like before. It has to rely on its own since no one else care about them then...