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The largest Berber group in Algeria is the Kabyle people, who are concentrated in the Kabylia region of the country. The Berbers of Algeria have a long and complex history, dating back to ancient times. They were originally a tribal people, organized into clans and confederations, and they were known for their fierce resistance to foreign invaders.
Many famous French people like Édith Piaf, [23] Isabelle Adjani, Arnaud Montebourg, Alain Bashung, Dany Boon, Gérald Darmanin and many others have Maghrebi ancestry. According to Michel Tribalat , a researcher at INED , there were more than 4.6 million people of Maghrebi origin (with at least one Maghrebi grandparent from Algeria, Morocco or ...
Algeria, [e] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [f] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
The Arab migrations to the Maghreb [a] involved successive waves of migration and settlement by Arab people in the Maghreb region of Africa, encompassing modern-day Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. The process took place over several centuries, lasting from the early 7th century to the 17th century.
Algerians (Arabic: الجزائريون, romanized: al-Jaza'iriyun) are the citizens and nationals of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. The majority of the country's population is composed of Arabs who make up 85% of the population, and there is a Berber minority of 15%. [ 14 ]
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 ...
The largest of these are the Kabyles, who live in the Kabylia region east of Algiers, the Chaoui of North-East Algeria, the Tuaregs in the southern desert and the Shenwa people of North Algeria. [18] [page needed] During the colonial period, there was a large (15% in 1960) [19] European population who became known as Pied-Noirs.
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