About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Carthage, Berber languages, Berber people, Atlas Mountains, Couscous, Tuareg languages, Marabout, Barbary Coast, Maghreb people, Insurgency in the Maghreb, History of North Africa, Abd al-Rahman ibn Habib al-Fihri, Obeid Allah ibn al-Habhab, Maysara al-Matghari, North Africa during Antiquity, Utica, Tunisia, Arab Maghreb Union, Habib ibn Abi Obeida al-Fihri, Berbers and Islam, Mediterranean woodlands and forests, Casbah, Handhala ibn Safwan al-Kalbi, Balj ibn Bishr al-Qushayri, Barbary macaque, Arabized Berber, Habib ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, Maghreb placename etymology, Ilyas ibn Habib al-Fihri, Maghrebi Jews, Zaouia, Rawd al-Qirtas, Maghrebi Arabic, Yazid ibn Abi Muslim, Tell Atlas, Khalid ibn Abi Habib al-Fihri, Kounta, Medina quarter, Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, Ribat, Kulthum ibn Iyad al-Qasi, Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests, Little Maghreb, Ismail ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Muhajir, Sidi, Fantasia, Darija, Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe, Kasbah, Khalid ibn Hamid al-Zanati, Tamazgha, Mediterranean Acacia-Argania dry woodlands, M di 1, Germa, Kel Ahaggar, Northwest Africa, Kel Ajjer, Emblem of the Maghreb Union. Excerpt: Berbers (Berber: Imazighen / Imazi en) are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Today, varieties of Maghrebi colloquial Arabic are spoken by a large portion of Berbers besides the Berber language itself. Foreign languages like French are used by the educated in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Spanish is also known by some Berbers in Morocco and in the annexed Western Sahara and Italian in Libya. This presence...
