 Count Aznar II looked south, marrying his daughter to the "wali" of Huesca, Muhammad al-Tawil.The Navarrese also expanded their kingdom to the region south of the Aragón, a zone devastated militarily by the Arabs in the preceding centuries of conflict.The Navarrese fortification of this area severely curtailed the possibility of Aragonese expansion via reconquest by cutting off the obvious route of such conquest.