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Aït Benhaddou, a Kasbah. At the top of the castle there are four letters in Tifinagh alphabet.

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The Garamantes were a Saharan Berber-speaking people who used an elaborate underground irrigation system, and founded a kingdom in the Fezzan area of modern-day Libya, in the Sahara desert. They were a local power in the Sahara between 500 BC - 500 AD.

There is not much information about the Garamantes, not even the name they used to call themselves; Garamantes was a Greek name which the Romans later adopted. Most of what we know comes from Greek and Roman sources, and recent archaeological excavations in the area, though large areas in ruins are still unexcavated. Another important source of information are the abundant rock paintings, many of which depict life prior to the rise of the realm...Read more

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The Berbers

The Amazighs (berbers) are scattered into several ethnic groups throughout Northwest Africa, also called Tamazgha, « land of the free people » :

The Chleuhs in Souss valley, the High and the Anti Atlas (Morocco)
The Rifains in the Rif (Maroc)
The Zayanes in the Middle Atlas (Morocco)
The Chaouis in the Aurès (Algeria)
The Chenouis in the Chenoua (Algeria)
The Kabyles in Kabylie (Algeria)
The Mozabites in the Mzab valley (Algeria)
The Siwis dans le Siwa (Egypt)
The Touareg in central sahara (Algeria, Libya, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso)

tamazight (berber language) and its variants:

Chaoui - Chenoui - Chleuh - Kabyle - Mozabite - Nafusi - Rifain - Siwi - Tagargrent - Touareg - Zayane

Tamazight could be written with the tifinagh alphabet (libyco-berber script), which dates back to 2500 BP, or with the latin alphabet.

History

Meshwesh - Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt - Twenty-third dynasty of Egypt

Gaetulia - Garamantes - Guanches

Mauretania - Numidia - Africa Province - Massyles - Massaesyles - Second Punic War - Battle of Zama - Third Punic War - Jugurthine War

Mauretania Tingitana - Moors

Berber dynasties : Fatimides - Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi - Kutama - Ziri ibn Menad - Sanhadja - Abu Yazid - Zenata - Zirid - Bologhine ibn Ziri - Hammadid - Hammad ibn Buluggin - Almoravides - Ibn Tumart - Masmuda - Abd al-Mu'min - Abu Yaqub Yusuf - Almohades - Ibn Yasin - Yusuf ibn Tashfin - Marinid -

Wattasid - Abdalwadid - Hafsid dynasty

Republic of the Rif - Dahir - Berber spring - Black spring

Culture

Berber calendar
Yennayer

Sociology

Berberism
Académie berbère
Congrès Mondiale Amazigh
Institut royal de la culture amazighe

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Ancient history :

Ancient Egypt : Shoshenq I - Twenty-third dynasty of Egypt
Numidia/Mauretania : Syphax - Massinissa - Micipsa - Terence - Adherbal - Jugurtha - Bocchus - Bogudes - Bocchus II - Juba I - Juba II - Ptolemy of Mauretania - Tacfarinas
Africa Province : Apuleius - Pope Victor I - Tertullian - Macrinus - Cyprian - Pope Marcellinus - Lactantius - Pope Miltiades - Arnobius - Aurelius Victor - Donat - Firmus (4th century usurper) - Monique - Augustine of Hippo - Possidius - Martianus Capella - Pope Gelasius I - Arius - Tin-Hinan - Antalas

Middle Ages: Kusayla - Dihya - Tariq ibn Ziyad - Abou Hassan ach-Chadhili - Almoravids - Almohads - Marinids - Wattasid - Ibn Battuta - Boabdil

Modern history :

Resistants : Amirouche Aït Hamouda - Mohamed Améziane - Krim Belkacem - Mostefa Ben Boulaid - Larbi Ben M'Hidi - Lalla Fatma N'Soumer - Cheikh El Haddad - Abdelkrim El Khattabi - Mohamed El Mokrani - Mouha ou Hammou Zayani - Mohamed Khider - Didouche Mourad - Amar Ouamrane - Assou Oubasslam - Abane Ramdane

Thinkers et Researchers: Fodil El Ouartilani - Mohammed Arkoun - Abdelmalek Sayad

Politics : Hocine Aït Ahmed - Driss Jettou - Redha Malek - Kasdi Merbah - Mohamed Oufkir - Ahmed Ouyahia - Abdelmadjid Sidi-Saïd - Liamine Zéroual

Writers : Mohand Idir Aït Amrane - Aït Challal - Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche - Jean Amrouche - Taos Amrouche - Muhammad Awzal - Rabah Belamri - Si Amar U Said Boulifa - Abdellah Bounfour - Aziz Chouaki - Mohamed Choukri - Tahar Djaout - Assia Djebar - Mouloud Feraoun - Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine - Si Muhand U M’hand - Mouloud Mammeri - Mohamed Moustaoui - Chabane Ouahioune - Ahmed Sefrioui - Hamid Tibouchi - Kateb Yacine - Moufdi Zakaria

Singers : aamouri m'bark - Lounis Aït Menguellet - Hadj El Anka - Slimane Azem - Cheikh El-Hasnaoui - Idir - Matoub Lounès - Takfarinas - Tinariwen - Akli Yahiatène

Sportmen : Larbi Benbarek - Larbi Benboudaoud - Mustapha Hadji - Ali Idir - Rabah Madjer - Zinedine Zidane

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