The Maghreb (/ˈmɑːɡrəb/; Arabic: ْاَلْمَغْرِب, romanized: al-Maghrib, lit. 'the west' [ælˈmaɣrɪb] ), also known as the Arab Maghreb (Arabic: اَلْمَغْرِبُ...
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Maghreb Association Sportive de Fès (Arabic: المغرب الرياضي الفاسي) is a Moroccan professional football club based in Fez, that competes in Botola, the...
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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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The Arab Maghreb Union (Arabic: إتحاد المغرب العربي Ittiḥād al-Maghrib al-‘Arabī; AMU/UMA) is a political union and economic union trade agreement aiming...
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Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي, romanized: Tanẓīm al-Qā'idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī)...
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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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sports events known as the Maghreb Championships, including: Maghreb Athletics Championships, a defunct athletics competition Maghreb Champions Cup, a defunct...
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Maghrib (disambiguation) (redirect from Maghreb (disambiguation))
Maghrib or Maghreb may also refer to: Greater Maghreb, a region of North Africa west of Egypt Maghrebis, inhabitants of the Greater Maghreb Morocco, whose...
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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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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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Arab Spring (redirect from Maghreb protests)
(1970–present) War, 1975–1991 Clashes, 2020–present Others Algerian Civil War (1991–2002) Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) Tunisian revolution (2010–2011)...
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officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to...
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Maghrebi cuisine (redirect from Maghreb cuisine)
Maghreb cuisine is the cooking of the Maghreb region, the northwesternmost part of Africa along the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of the countries of...
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Plural Maghreb (in French: Maghreb pluriel) is a book of critical essays written by Abdelkebir Khatibi first published in 1983. The book, containing six...
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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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The Maghreb magpie (Pica mauritanica) is a species of magpie found in North Africa from Morocco east to Tunisia. It can be distinguished from the Eurasian...
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Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the...
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Little Maghreb (French: Petit Maghreb, pronounced [pəti maɡʁɛb]) is a neighbourhood in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension in Montreal...
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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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The Maghreb–Europe Gas Pipeline (MEG; also known as the Pere Duran Farell pipeline or Gazoduc Maghreb Europe – GME) is a natural gas pipeline, which links...
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Maghreb Emballage (Arabic: التغليف المغاربي) is a manufacturer in the paper and packaging industry, founded in 1948 and based in Oran, Algeria. Maghreb...
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in 2014. Local French-language media include Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb, TelQuel, Aujourd'hui le Maroc, La Vie éco. French is a working language...
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The place names of the Maghreb come from a variety of origins, mostly Arabic and Berber, but including a few derived from Phoenician, Latin, and several...
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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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Almohad Caliphate (section Collapse in the Maghreb)
the western Maghreb in 1147, when he conquered Marrakesh and declared himself caliph. They then extended their power over all of the Maghreb by 1159. Al-Andalus...
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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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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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Berbers (category Maghreb)
groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb. Their main connections are identified by their usage of Berber languages...
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Banu Hilal (section Migration to the Maghreb)
the Najd region of the central Arabian Peninsula that emigrated to the Maghreb region of North Africa in the 11th century. Masters of the vast plateaux...
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The Permanent Maghreb of World Wide Fund for Nature is a freshwater ecoregion of North Africa. The Permanent Maghreb ecoregion covers an area of 950,180...
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