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    question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tifinagh letters. Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are...
    181 KB (20,446 words) - 18:56, 2 August 2024
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    Berber orthography is the writing system(s) used to transcribe the Berber languages. In antiquity, the Libyco-Berber script was utilized to write Berber...
    22 KB (2,344 words) - 02:17, 18 April 2024
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    Lounès Matoub (category Berber activists)
    intellectual revolution, and mandole player who was an advocate of the Berber cause, human rights, and secularism in Algeria throughout his life. Matoub...
    13 KB (1,375 words) - 21:59, 13 July 2024
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    Black Spring (Algeria) (category Berberism in Algeria)
    marginalization of the Highlander Kabyle, a homogeneous Berber linguistic group in Algeria (Berber speakers form some 25%–35% of the total population, although...
    8 KB (716 words) - 20:06, 10 July 2024
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    Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylie (category Berber separatism in North Africa)
    people Berber people Politics of Algeria Barbacha - A self-governing town in Kabylie. Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) - The main Liberal Berber party...
    6 KB (486 words) - 19:45, 10 July 2024
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    century and the subsequent Arabization of the Berber population. Following a succession of Islamic Arab and Berber dynasties between the eighth and 15th centuries...
    201 KB (19,403 words) - 05:41, 3 August 2024
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    would eventually return Ifriqiya (Tunisia and the entire Maghrib) to local Berber rule. The Shia Islamic Fatimid Caliphate departed to their newly conquered...
    79 KB (11,387 words) - 15:49, 10 July 2024
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    country's name derives from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania in North Africa within the ancient Maghreb. Berbers occupied what is now Mauritania beginning...
    102 KB (9,353 words) - 22:54, 3 August 2024
  • Arabs and Berbers and Anti-Arabism has been accentuated by the Algerian government's anti-Berber policies. Contemporary relations between Berbers and Arabs...
    115 KB (11,859 words) - 11:58, 3 August 2024
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    instead of Siculo-Arabic, while others believed the language to be one of the Berber languages (another family within Afroasiatic). The Kingdom of Italy classified...
    77 KB (5,823 words) - 15:01, 22 July 2024
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    Hirak Rif Movement (category Articles with text in Berber languages)
    The Hirak Rif Movement or the Rif Movement (Berber languages: ⴰⵎⵓⵙⵙⵓ ⵏ ⴰⵕⵉⴼ, Arabic: حراك الريف, lit. 'Movement of the Rif') is a popular resistance movement...
    25 KB (2,761 words) - 19:23, 27 March 2024
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    Kabylia (category Berbers in Algeria)
    the French invented the term 'Kabylia', a term never used by the Arab and Berber populations of Algeria prior to the French invasion. The word 'Kabyle' is...
    32 KB (3,246 words) - 07:46, 25 July 2024
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    Tunisia (category Articles with text in Berber languages)
    of speakers of Berber languages known collectively as Jebbali or Shelha in the country. Actively spoken Berber languages are Jerba Berber on the island...
    156 KB (15,710 words) - 10:51, 3 August 2024
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    regarding its long-term conflict with the Byzantine Empire. The native Berbers eventually converted to Islam. They might have seen some similarities between...
    70 KB (10,390 words) - 13:53, 27 February 2024
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    have originally referred to a native Libyan tribe, an ancestor of modern Berbers; see Terence for discussion. The name had usually been connected with the...
    207 KB (21,239 words) - 04:38, 28 July 2024
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    Morocco.: 63  Abd al-Rahman III increased diplomatic relations with the Berber tribes in North Africa, Christian kingdoms from the north, West Francia...
    87 KB (10,186 words) - 17:38, 3 August 2024
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    "Southern Berbers". They are Hassaniya-speaking or Berber-speaking tribes of Berber origin (97% of Y-DNA). Many of them have mixed Berber-Arab heritage...
    112 KB (11,644 words) - 08:47, 19 July 2024
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    a million of Libya's seven million people. Libya has been inhabited by Berbers since the late Bronze Age as descendants from Iberomaurusian and Capsian...
    220 KB (19,894 words) - 05:21, 4 August 2024
  • darker complexion or black moors. The beidane, who are of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry, represent 30% of Mauritania's population. The language of the...
    7 KB (776 words) - 20:18, 24 July 2024
  • Mohammed Bouyeri (category Dutch people of Moroccan-Berber descent)
    sentenced in 2005. Mohammed Bouyeri is a second-generation Moroccan-Dutchman of Berber origin. In 1995, Bouyeri finished his secondary education. At university...
    17 KB (1,600 words) - 08:49, 15 July 2024
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