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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]
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 .
Tunisia was a French protectorate since 1881, and the country fought for independence from 1952 to 1956, after which many of the 105,000 Jews within the community emigrated. [18] In recent decades, the Jewish community has continued to shrink as many emigrated to Israel, France, and other countries.
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
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 in France are those parts of the Arab diaspora who have immigrated to France, as well as their descendants.Subgroups include Algerians in France, Moroccans in France, Mauritanians in France, Tunisians in France, Lebanese in France and Refugees of the Syrian Civil War.
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 ...