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1. The Great Berber Revolt of /– AD (– AH in the Muslim calendar) took place during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik and marked the first successful secession from the Arab caliphate (ruled from Damascus). Fired up by Kharijite puritan preachers, the Berber revolt against their Umayyad Arab rulers began in Tangiers in , and was led initially by Maysara Location: The Maghreb and Al-Andalus.

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2. Berbers are indigenous, or native, people of North Africa. The Berber culture is more than 4, years old. In ancient times Mauritania (now a country) and Numidia were well-known Berber states. Between the s and s two Berber dynasties ruled large parts of Spain and North Africa. These dynasties were known as the Almoravids and Almohads.

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4. The Berbers were the people who lived in North Africa before the Arabs arrived. They were called Berbers by the ancient Romans, and the Berber lands were later called the Barbary States. The Berbers call themselves Imazighen, which is the plural of Amazigh. Most Berbers live west of the Nile River, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.

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5. Feb 11,  · The Islamists vastly outdo the Berber movement in both numbers and political strength; Berber activists are found mainly in the mountains. But they are .

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6. The Berbers call themselves "Imazighen", meaning the free. Berbers are non-Arabic tribes that are often referred to as Arab-Islamic. Over the last several hundred years many Berber peoples have converted to Islam. • History: The Berbers are known to have been in North Africa at least in B.C. They are.

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7. BERBERS, indigenous North African tribes who originally spoke dialects of the Berber earedfoungaraci.unpobhyaparlirodewenmacechelad.coal Arab writers ascribed the ancestry of the Berbers to *Goliath the Philistine and maintained their Canaanite origin. The Phoenician colonization of Africa, the long Carthaginian domination, and the survival of Punic, a language closely related to Hebrew, supported these legends .

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8. Berbers in France are people of Berber descent living in France. Berbers in France, who generally call themselves Amazigh and not Berbers, are estimated to number over 2 million people. Notable people. Zinedine Zidane. Karim Benzema. Hindi Zahra. Souad Massi. Isabelle Adjani. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. Saïd Taghmaoui.

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