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  2. Maghrebis - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Maghreb - Wikipedia

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    Haplogroup J1-M267 accounts for around 30% of Maghrebis and has spread from the Arabian Peninsula, second after E1b1b1b which accounts for 45% of Maghrebis. A study from 2021 has shown that the highest frequency of the Middle Eastern component ever observed in North Africa so far was observed in the Arabs of Wesletia in Tunisia , who had a ...

  4. Maghrebi Arabs - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of Maghrebis - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Maghreb place name etymology - Wikipedia

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    The place names of the Maghreb come from a variety of origins, mostly Arabic and Berber, but including a few derived from Phoenician, Latin, and several other languages.. This is well illustrated by the three largest cities of Algeria, for instance: Algiers from Arabic al-jazâ'ir "the islands", Oran from Wahran from Berber wa-iharan "place of lions", and Constantine (Arabic Qasantina ...

  7. List of French people of Maghrebi origin - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Arab migrations to the Maghreb - Wikipedia

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    Haplogroup J1-M267 accounts for around 30% of Maghrebis and is assumed to have spread out of the Arabia Peninsula into North Africa, second after E1b1b1b which accounts for 45% of Maghrebis. According to a study from 2021, the highest frequency of the Middle Eastern component ever observed in North Africa so far was observed in the Arabs of ...

  9. Maghrebi Jews - Wikipedia

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    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.