region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Maghreb also includes the disputed territory...
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The Arab migrations to the Maghreb involved successive waves of migration and settlement by Arab people in the Maghreb region of North Africa (excluding...
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Malikization of the Maghreb was the process of encouraging the adoption of the Maliki school (founded by Malik ibn Anas) of Sunni Islam in the Maghreb, especially...
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The Arab Maghreb Union (Arabic: إتحاد المغرب العربي Ittiḥād al-Maghrib al-‘Arabī, French: Union du Maghreb Arabe, AMU/UMA) is a political union and economic...
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The Muslim conquest of the Maghreb (Arabic: فَتْحُ اَلْمَغْرِب, romanized: Fath al-Maghrib, lit. 'Conquest of the West') or Arab conquest of North Africa...
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Maghrebi Arabic (redirect from Maghreb Arabic)
Literary Arabic, is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb. It includes the Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, Hassaniya and Saharan...
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Banu Hilal (section Migration to the Maghreb)
confederation of Arab tribes from the Najd region of the central Arabian Peninsula that emigrated to the Maghreb region of North Africa in the 11th century. Masters...
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An Islamist insurgency is taking place in the Maghreb region of North Africa, followed on from the end of the Algerian Civil War in 2002. The Algerian...
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Hilalian dialects (redirect from Central Hilalian Arabic dialects)
dialects (Arabic: اللهجات الهلالية) are a continuum of Arabic dialects of the Maghreb, which were introduced during the Hilalian invasions between the 11th and...
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ending in 743, which led to the end of its rule in the western and central Maghreb. Following this period, the Umayyads retained their rule over Ifriqiya...
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Maghrebi Arabs (category Maghreb)
أفريقيا, romanized: ‘Arab Shamal Ifriqiya) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa whose ethnic identity is Arab, whose native language...
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the name given to the coastal regions of central and western North Africa or more specifically the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of...
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the Maghreb countries, though this has receded somewhat with official Arabization. Francophone Africa is a continuous area in West Africa and Central Africa...
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The Maghreb rebab or Maghrebi rebab is a bowed lute now played mainly in Northern Africa. It fits within the wider rebab traditions of the Arab world...
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The Maghreb barbel (Luciobarbus maghrebensis) is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Morocco. The taxonomy and systematics...
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in central Maghreb, with their stronghold being Titteri, during the Middle Ages. They played a prominent role in the history of the Muslim Maghreb and...
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The Maghreb lark (Galerida macrorhyncha) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in the Maghreb desert of north-western Africa. The Maghreb lark...
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Berbers and Islam (category Maghreb)
are an indigenous ethnic group of the Maghreb region of North Africa. Following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, most Berber tribes eventually became...
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Arabs to refer to the eastern part of the Arab world, as opposed to the Maghreb (western) region, and located in Western Asia and eastern North Africa...
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Moors (section Moors of the Maghreb)
used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages...
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found in national cuisines across the Middle East, Maghreb, Iran, Turkey, Southeast Europe, Central Asia, East Africa and South Asia. It is often prepared...
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List of conflicts in Africa (redirect from Central African Republic Conflict)
11 September 1987 Toyota War 11 April 2002 – ongoing Insurgency in the Maghreb 1665–1709 Kongo Civil War 1993–1994 Republic of the Congo Civil War (1993–94)...
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the region during the early Muslim conquests. The Arab migrations to the Maghreb began immediately after, which started a long process of Islamization and...
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dynasty from what is now Algeria which ruled the central Maghreb from 972 to 1014 and Ifriqiya (eastern Maghreb) from 972 to 1148. Descendants of Ziri ibn Manad...
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Maghrawa (section In the western Maghreb)
army, however, the majority of the Maghrawa left the central Maghreb and migrated into the Maghreb al-Aqsa (present-day Morocco), where they settled across...
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Berbers (category Maghreb)
Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb. Their main connections are identified by their usage of Berber languages...
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Maghrebi Jews (redirect from Jews of the Maghreb)
Africa) are an ethnic group of Jews who had traditionally lived in the Maghreb region of North Africa (al-Maghrib, Arabic for "the west") under Arab rule...
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India. Also, most of the Indian Tamil population lives in the country's central highland region, while the native Tamils typically live in the Northern...
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al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Algeria Province "Riots erupt in drought-stricken central Algeria over months of...
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