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Maghrebis or Maghrebians (Arabic: المغاربيون, romanized: al-Māghāribiyyun) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa. [13] It is a modern Arabic term meaning "Westerners", denoting their location in the western part of the Arab world .
Today, more than two and a half million Maghrebi immigrants live in France, many from Algeria and Morocco. In addition, as of 1999 there were 3 million French of Maghrebi origin (defined as having at least one grandparent from Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia). [35] A 2003 estimate suggests six million French residents were ethnic Maghrebi. [36] [37]
Shoshenq I, Egyptian Pharaoh of Libyan origin, founder of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt. [2] Tefnakht, Pharaoh of Libyan origin, who reigned 732–725 BC; Masinissa, King of Numidia, North Africa, present day Algeria and Tunisia; Jugurtha, King of Numidia; Juba II, King of Numidia; Macrinus, Roman emperor for 14 months in 217 and 218 [3]
Arabs at a cafe in Algiers, 1899.. Maghrebi Arabs (Arabic: العرب المغاربة, romanized: al-‘Arab al-Maghāriba) or North African Arabs (Arabic: عرب شمال أفريقيا, romanized: ‘Arab Shamāl Ifrīqiyā) are the inhabitants of the Maghreb region of North Africa whose ethnic identity is Arab, whose native language is Arabic and trace their ancestry to the tribes of the ...
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The genetic history of North Africa encompasses the genetic history of the people of North Africa.The most important source of gene flow to North Africa from the Neolithic Era onwards was from Western Asia, while the Sahara desert to the south and the Mediterranean Sea to the north were also important barriers to gene flow from sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Europe in prehistory.
As of 2008, 18.1% of the population of the northern Parisian commune of Saint-Denis was Maghrebian. [12] Melissa K. Brynes, author of French Like Us?Municipal Policies and North African Migrants in the Parisian Banlieues, 1945—1975, wrote that in the middle of the 20th Century, "few of [the Paris-area communes with North African populations] were as engaged with their migrant communities as ...