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Berbers (Arabic: بربر) or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh (/ æ m ə ˈ z ɪ ɡ /) or Imazighen (Berber languages: ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ, ⵎⵣⵗⵏ, romanized: Imaziɣen; singular: Amaziɣ, ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖ, ⵎⵣⵗ; Arabic: أمازيغ), are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North ...
- Berber Languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or...
- Genetic History of North Africa
The genetic history of North Africa encompasses the genetic...
- Arab Migrations to The Maghreb
The Arab migrations to the Maghreb involved successive waves...
- Flag
The Berber flag or Amazigh flag is an ethnic flag used as a...
- Tuareg
Further invasions of Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym Arab tribes...
- Iberomaurusian
The Iberomaurusian is a backed bladelet lithic industry...
- Masinissa
Masinissa (Numidian: , Masnsen; c. 238 BC – 148 BC: 180, 183...
- Shilha
Overview. The Shilha people traditionally call themselves...
- Names of The Berber People
The indigenous population of the Maghreb region of North...
- Libu
The Libu (Ancient Egyptian: rbw; also transcribed Rebu,...
- Berber Languages
Arabized Berbers are Berbers whose language is a local dialect of Arabic and whose culture is Arab culture, as a result of Arabization. [1] The widespread language shift from Berber to Arabic happened, at least partially, due to the privileged status that the Arabic language has generally been given in the states of North Africa, from the Arab ...
The Arab-Barb or Arabian-Berber (Arabic: حصان عربي بربري) is a breed of saddle horses originating from the Maghreb. It is the result of crossing the Arab and Barb breeds and shares a common genetic origin with the latter. The first Arab-Barb studbook was created in 1948.
Berber, any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa. The Berbers live in scattered communities across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Mauritania. They speak various Amazigh languages belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family related to ancient Egyptian.
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The presence of proto-Berber peoples from prehistoric times is evident in Saharan caves, where rock paintings depicting diverse megafaunal life point to evidence that before the desertification of the Sahara, North Africa was a lush and resource-rich region populated by hunter-gatherer societies. The basal two deities of Berber cosmology - a solar ...
The existence of powerful semi-nomadic tribes inhabiting the Maghreb was noted by Egyptian dynasties since the 13 century BCE; certain of these engaged in armed conflict with the Egyptians and thus among the pharaonic dynasties came to be regarded negatively and their societies styled as barbarian. The most notable groups from this period are the M...
By the time Carthage in North Africa was founded under Phoenician thalassocracy in the 9th century BCE, larger Berber groups had already transitioned from hunter-gathering and pastoralism to sedentary pastoral-agricultural organization. Native North Africans provided seafaring Phoenician colonists exactly what they were looking for: trading partner...
Arab-Berber (Arabic: العرب والبربر al-ʿarab wa-l-barbar) is an ethnolinguistic group of the Maghreb, a large region of North Africa along the Mediterranean Sea. Arab-Berbers are people of mixed Arab and Berber origin, many speak a variant of Maghrebi Arabic as their native language, References
Monday 23 April, 2001. Berbers: The Proud Raiders. They call themselves Amazigh, the proud raiders. But most people know them as Berbers. For millennia, the Berbers of North Africa fought...
