Algeria: 7,500,000 Tunisia:    200,000 Libya:    250,000+ Mauretania:    80,000 Egypt:    10,000 France:    1,000,000 Spain:    50,000 Israel:    50,000   Semitic The Berbers (also called Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afro ...

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• Berber - Origin
• Berber - Genetic evidence
• Berber - Archaeological
• Berber - Linguistic
• Berber - Phenotype and genotype by region
• Berber - Coastal Northwest Africans
• Berber - Northwest Africans of the interior
• Berber - Saharan Northwest Africans
• Berber - Religions and beliefs
• Berber - History
• Berber - Berbers and the Islamic conquest
• Berber - Berbers in Al-Andalus
• Berber - Modern-day Berbers
• Berber - The Arabization of Northwest Africa
• Berber - Famous Berbers
• Berber - In ancient times
• Berber - In medieval times
• Berber - In modern times
• Berber - Famous people who were either Berber or Punic
• Berber - Famous people who may have had some Berber ancestors

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Berber, Berber - Origin, Berber - Genetic evidence, Berber - Archaeological, Berber - Linguistic, Berber - Phenotype and genotype by region, Berber - Coastal Northwest Africans, Berber - Northwest Africans of the interior, Berber - Saharan Northwest Africans, Berber - Religions and beliefs, Berber - History, Berber - Berbers and the Islamic conquest, Berber - Berbers in Al-Andalus, Berber - Modern-day Berbers, Berber - The Arabization of Northwest Africa, Berber - Famous Berbers, Berber - In ancient times, Berber - In medieval times, Berber - In modern times, Berber - Famous people who were either Berber or Punic, Berber - Famous people who may have had some Berber ancestors

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There is no complete certitude about the origin of the Berbers; however, various disciplines shed light on the matter. Berber - Genetic evidence. While population genetics is a young science still full of controversy, in general the genetic evidence appears to indicate that most northwest Africans (whether they consider themselves Berber or Arab) are predominantly of Berber origin, and that populations ancestral to the Berbers have been in the area since the Upper Paleolithic era. The genetically predomina ...

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Berber, Berber - Origin, Berber - Genetic evidence, Berber - Archaeological, Berber - Linguistic, Berber - Phenotype and genotype by region, Berber - Coastal Northwest Africans, Berber - Northwest Africans of the interior, Berber - Saharan Northwest Africans, Berber - Religions and beliefs, Berber - History, Berber - Berbers and the Islamic conquest, Berber - Berbers in Al-Andalus, Berber - Modern-day Berbers, Berber - The Arabization of Northwest Africa, Berber - Famous Berbers, Berber - In ancient times, Berber - In medieval times, Berber - In modern times, Berber - Famous people who were either Berber or Punic, Berber - Famous people who may have had some Berber ancestors

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The Berber languages (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria. A very sparse population extends into the whole Sahara and the northern part of the Sahel. They belong to the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum. There is a strong movement among Berbers to unify the closely related northern Berber languages into a single standard, Tamazight. Among the Berber languages are Tarifit or Riffi (northern Morocco), Kabyle (Algeria) and Tashelhiyt (central Morocco). Tamazight has ...

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• Berber languages - Nomenclature
• Berber languages - Origin
• Berber languages - Population
• Berber languages - Grammar
• Berber languages - Subclassification

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The Berber languages (or Berber language) are spoken in many parts of Algeria, but mainly in Kabylie and around Batna; according to the 1966 census, 19% of Algerians speak Berber. The Berber languages/dialects spoken in Algeria include: In the north: Kabyle in Kabylie Chaouia around Batna Chenoua around Cherchell Tarifit around Arzew probably extinct, in western Algeria: Beni Snous Achacha Ouarsenis

The Berbers have lived in North Africa between western Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean for as far back as records of the area go. References to them occur frequently in ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman sources. Berber groups are first mentioned in writing by the ancient Egyptians during the Predynastic Period, and during the New Kingdom the Egyptians later fought against the Meshwesh and Lebu (Libyans) tribes on their western borders. Many Egyptologists think that from about 945 BC the Egyptians were ruled by Meshwesh immigrants who founded t ...

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Berber, Berber - Origin, Berber - Genetic evidence, Berber - Archaeological, Berber - Linguistic, Berber - Phenotype and genotype by region, Berber - Coastal Northwest Africans, Berber - Northwest Africans of the interior, Berber - Saharan Northwest Africans, Berber - Religions and beliefs, Berber - History, Berber - Berbers and the Islamic conquest, Berber - Berbers in Al-Andalus, Berber - Modern-day Berbers, Berber - The Arabization of Northwest Africa, Berber - Famous Berbers, Berber - In ancient times, Berber - In medieval times, Berber - In modern times, Berber - Famous people who were either Berber or Punic, Berber - Famous people who may have had some Berber ancestors

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Almoravides (In Arabic المرابطون al-Murabitun, sing. مرابط Murabit), is a Berber dynasty from the Sahara which, in the 11th century, founded the fourth dynasty in Morocco. Under this dynasty the Moorish empire was extended over Tlemcen (in modern Algeria) and a great part of Spain and Portugal. The name is derived from the Arabic Murabit, variously translated as religious ascetic or warrior monk. Almoravides - Beginnings. The most powerful of the invading tri ...

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• Almoravides - Beginnings
• Almoravides - Influence of orthodox Islam
• Almoravides - Ascendence of Militarism
• Almoravides - Military Successes
• Almoravides - Morocco and Western Sahara
• Almoravides - Ghana
• Almoravides - Spain
• Almoravides - The Prince of the Muslims
• Almoravides - Decline

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Awjila is an oasis after which the Awjila language, an Eastern Berber language spoken there, is named. The people cultivate small gardens using water from deep wells. They are Sunni Muslims. Awjila - Alternate Names. Aujila Augila Aoudjila ...

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• Awjila - Alternate Names

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Tuat ("Tawat" or, in French, "Touat") is a Berber name for a people living in the north of Algeria. The Tuat number some 50,000 and give their name to the Tuat region of around 48,000 sq.km. The main population centre is In-Salah (or "Insalah"), although the area is dotted with the fertile oases of the western part of the Algerian Sahara and there are over 300 "ksurs" or hamlets. The largest of these is Adrar. The Tuat people are mostly farmers. There are four main groupings: the Tuat; the Zenata Berbers who live in the ...

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• Tuat - History

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White (noun, white or whites; adjective, white people) is a color-defined term used as a form of ethno-racial classification. Though literally implying light-skinned, "white" has been used in different ways at different times and places. It is somewhat of a misnomer. While the extremes of human skin color range from pink to blue-black, the vast majority of people have a skin color which can be best described as some shade of brown. A common element to the various definitions of "White" today, is that the term refers to a person ...

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• White people - The Epistemological Challenge
• White people - Synonyms
• White people - Historic use of the term in the United States
• White people - Early immigrants: Germans Irish
• White people - Late nineteenth-century immigrants: Italians Slavs European Jews Asians
• White people - Early twentieth-century immigrants: Arabs Berbers
• White people - Late twentieth-century immigrants: Hispanics West Indians
• White people - African Americans
• White people - Use of the term outside the United States
• White people - The Americas: Euro-predominant and mixed-race people
• White people - North Africa Southwest Asia and South Asia
• White people - Whiteness and White nationalism
• White people - Social vs. physical perceptions of white
• White people - Criticisms of the term
• White people - White as opposed to Light Skinned
• White people - Areas of habitation
• White people - Footnotes

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The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i.e. "the monotheists" or "the Unitarians," the name being corrupted in Spanish) were a Berber Muslim religious power which founded the fifth Moorish dynasty in the 12th century, and conquered all northern Africa as far as Egypt, together with Muslim Spain. Almohad - Origins. It originated with Ibn Tumart, a member of the Masmuda, a Berber tribe of the Atlas Mountains. Ibn Tumart was the son of a lamplighter in a mosque and had been not ...

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• Almohad - Origins
• Almohad - The ruling
• Almohad - Muwahhadi Almohad Caliphs 1145-1269
• Almohad - Publications

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Events August 13 - John succeeds Hormisdas as Pope. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius writes the Consolations of philosophy. Leptis Magna is sacked by Berber raiders. Hilderic becomes king of the Vandals. Justinian, later Byzantine emperor, marries Theodora. Seong becomes king of Baekje. Births Deaths February 1 - Brigid of Ireland (Saint) August 6 - Pope Hormisdas October 24 - St. Aretas, leader o ...

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Culture of Morocco - Morocco is a country of multi-ethnic groups with a rich culture and civilization. Through Moroccan history, Morocco hosted many people coming from both East (Berbers, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Jews and Arabs), South (Africans) and North (Romans, Vandals, Moors and Jews). All those civilizations should have an impact on the social structure of Morocco. It conceived all forms o ...

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• Culture of Morocco - Facts and figures
• Culture of Morocco - Ethnics and languages
• Culture of Morocco - Traditional clothing
• Culture of Morocco - Cinema
• Culture of Morocco - History
• Culture of Morocco - Movies in Morocco

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252 - Events. Sun Liang succeeds Sun Quan as king of the Chinese Kingdom of Wu. Pope Cornelius is imprisoned by Roman emperor Trebonianus Gallus. Valerian recreated III Augusta to fight the Berbers. 252 - Births. 252 - Deaths. Sun Quan, Chinese warlord and founder of the Kingdom of Wu Category: 252 ...

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• 252 - Events
• 252 - Births
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The term "Berber" is disliked by many modern Berbers, because it comes from the ancient Greek barbaros, "barbarian". Nonetheless, it is used in Western languages by many Berber writers, such as the Kabyle Professor Salem Chaker of INALCO in Paris, Werner Vycichl, and Maarten Kossmann and Harry Stroomer of Leiden University. The term Tamazight is often substituted, particularly to refer to Northern Berber languages; in Western languages, this term can also (somewhat misleadingly) be used specifically to refer to the langu ...

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Berber languages, Berber languages - Nomenclature, Berber languages - Origin, Berber languages - Population, Berber languages - Grammar, Berber languages - Subclassification

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Subclassification of the Berber languages is made difficult by their mutual closeness; Maarten Kossmann (1999) describes it as two dialect continua, Northern Berber and Tuareg, and a few peripheral languages, spoken in isolated pockets largely surrounded by Arabic, that fall outside these continua, namely Zenaga and the Libyan and Egyptian varieties. Within Northern Berber, however, he recognizes a break in the continuum between Zenati languages and their non-Zenati neighbors; and in the east, he recognizes a division between Ghadames and Aw ...

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Berber languages, Berber languages - Nomenclature, Berber languages - Origin, Berber languages - Population, Berber languages - Grammar, Berber languages - Subclassification

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The exact population of Berber speakers is hard to ascertain, since most Maghreb countries do not record language data in their censuses. The Ethnologue provides a useful academic starting point; however, its bibliographic references are inadequate, and it rates its own accuracy at only B-C for the area. Early colonial censuses may provide better documented figures for some countries; however, these are also very much out of date. "Few census figures are available; all countries (Algeria and Morocco included) do not count Berber ...

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Berber languages, Berber languages - Nomenclature, Berber languages - Origin, Berber languages - Population, Berber languages - Grammar, Berber languages - Subclassification

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Originally, the Maghreb was inhabited by "white" Cro-Magnoids (Iberomaurusians) in the north and by "black" peoples in the Sahara. Later, about 8000 BC, there came from the east "white" speakers of northern Afro-Asiatic languages such as Berber at least since the Capsian culture. Many ports along the Maghreb coast were occupied by Phoenicians, particularly Carthaginians; with the defeat of Carthage, many of these ports naturally passed to Rome, and ultimately it took control of the entire Maghreb north of the Atlas Mountains, apart from some of the most mountai ...

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Maghreb, Maghreb - Modern territories of the Maghreb, Maghreb - Medieval regions of the Maghreb, Maghreb - History

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The area is populated by the Kabyles, the second Berber group per order of importance after the Chleuhs in Morocco. Their name means "tribe" (from the Arabic "qabîlah" قبيلة). They speak the Kabyle variety of Berber. Since the Berber Spring in 1980, Kabyles have been at the forefront of agitation for the official recognition of the Berber language in Algeria (see Languages of Algeria). Kabylie - Genetics. The Y chromosome is passed exclusively through the paternal line. The composition i ...

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Kabylie, Kabylie - Population, Kabylie - Genetics, Kabylie - Religion, Kabylie - Geography, Kabylie - Economy, Kabylie - Politics, Kabylie - History, Kabylie - Middle Ages, Kabylie - Modern age, Kabylie - Famous Kabyles, Kabylie - Artists, Kabylie - Figures of the Algerian resistance and revolution, Kabylie - Politicians, Kabylie - Sportsmen, Kabylie - Writers

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The area is populated by the Kabyles, the second Berber group per order of importance after the Chleuhs in Morocco. Their name means "tribe" (from the Arabic "qabîlah" قبيلة). They speak the Kabyle variety of Berber. Since the Berber Spring in 1980, Kabyles have been at the forefront of agitation for the official recognition of the Berber language in Algeria (see Languages of Algeria). Kabylie - Genetics. The Y chromosome is passed exclusively through the paternal line. The composition i ...

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Kabylie, Kabylie - Population, Kabylie - Genetics, Kabylie - Religion, Kabylie - Geography, Kabylie - Economy, Kabylie - Politics, Kabylie - History, Kabylie - Middle Ages, Kabylie - Modern age, Kabylie - Famous Kabyles, Kabylie - Artists, Kabylie - Figures of the Algerian resistance and revolution, Kabylie - Politicians, Kabylie - Sportsmen, Kabylie - Religious Leaders, Kabylie - Writers

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