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Kabylia or Kabylie [2] (/ k ə ˈ b ɪ l i ə /; Kabyle: Tamurt n Leqbayel or Iqbayliyen, meaning "Land of Kabyles", Arabic: منطقة القبائل, meaning "Land of the Tribes") is a mountainous coastal region in northern Algeria [3] and the homeland of the Kabyle people.
The geography of the Kabyle region played an important role in the people's history. The difficult mountainous landscape of the Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia provinces served as a refuge, to which most of the Kabyle people retreated when under pressure or occupation. They were able to preserve their cultural heritage in such isolation from other ...
The Kabyle Provisional Government (Kabyle: Anavaḍ Aqvayli Uεḍil) is a self-proclaimed provisional government in the form of an association formed in Paris by the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia and aimed at declaring the independence of Kabylia.
Kabyle people, an ethnic group in Algeria; Kabyle language. Kabyle alphabet, also known as Berber Latin alphabet; Kabyle grammar; Kabylie, the Kabyle ethnic homeland; Kabyles du Pacifique, a group of Algerians deported to New Caledonia after an uprising in 1871
Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, woman who led western Kabylie in battle against French colonizers. Belkacem Radjef, Algerian nationalist and revolutionary (1909–1989) Abane Ramdane, joined the revolution in 1956, assassinated in 1957
The Kingdom of Beni Abbas or Sultanate of Beni Abbas (Arabic: سلطنة بني عباس, romanized: Salṭanat Bani ʿAbbās) was a state in North Africa, then a fief and a principality, controlling Lesser Kabylie and its surroundings from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century.
The Kabyle myth is a colonial trope that was propagated by French colonists in the French Algeria based on a supposed binary between the Arab and Kabyle peoples, consisting of a set of stereotypes of supposed differences between them.