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Arab-Berbers are people of mixed Arab and Berber origin, [citation needed] most of whom speak a variant of Maghrebi Arabic as their native language, some also speak various Berber languages. Many Arab-Berbers identify [citation needed] primarily as Arab and secondarily as Berber. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
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Berbers (Arabic: بربر) or the Berber peoples, also called by...
- Arabized Berber
Arabized Berbers are Berbers whose language is a local...
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The region of North Africa practiced many religions including various forms of pagan rituals, Judaism, and Christianity. The first Islamic forces encountered fierce opposition by the various city-states resulting from the departure of the Byzantines. The weakest of them in the southern and southwestern parts of the Berber territory were the first t...
The Muslims who entered Iberia in 711 were mainly Berbers, and were led by a Berber, Tariq ibn Ziyad, though under the suzerainty of the Arab Caliph of Damascus Abd al-Malik and his North African Viceroy, Musa ibn Nusayr. A second mixed army of Arabs and Berbers came in 712 under Ibn Nusayr himself. It is claimed they formed approximately 66% of th...
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
- 43 million, (99% of the population)
- 36 million, (99% of the population)
- 5.8 million, (97% of the population)
- 11 million, (98% of the population)
Mʾzabite. Shawiya. Kabyle. Rif. Meknassa. 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.
Fired up by Kharijite puritan preachers, the Berber revolt against their Umayyad Arab rulers began in Tangiers in 740, and was led initially by Maysara al-Matghari. The revolt soon spread through the rest of the Maghreb (North Africa) and across the straits to al-Andalus .
