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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]
The history of Libyan Jews is one that is approximately 2,300 years old, and the population of Jews in Libya peaked at around 40,000 in 1945. [ 46 ] As Libya was occupied by Italy throughout most of the first half of the 20th century, the racial laws that targeted Jews and minimized their freedoms were enacted in Libya.
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 ...
French of Maghrebi (Arabs and Berbers) origin in France form the largest ethnic group after French of European origin. According to Michèle Tribalat , a researcher at INED , there were 3.5 million people of Maghrebi origin (with at least one grandparent from Algeria, Morocco or Tunisia) living in France in 2005 corresponding to 5.8% of the ...
Isabelle Adjani Dany Boon Jamel Debbouze Gad Elmaleh Nicolas Cazale Leïla Bekhti. Fu'ad Aït Aattou, actor, Moroccan Berber father and French mother; Cédric Ben Abdallah (Ben), humorist, Algerian father and French mother
Other Berbers, Arabs and Maghrebis The Moroccan diaspora ( Arabic : الجالية المغربية ), part of the wider Arab diaspora , consists of emigrants from Morocco and their descendants. An estimated 3 million Moroccans live abroad, [ 7 ] with the majority of the diaspora being located in Western Europe , especially France and Spain .