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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 ...
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 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.
"Zwawa" was the Arabic name of medieval Muslim historians for the tribes who inhabited the region between Bejaia and Dellys. [4] Some say that it's a deformation of the word "Igawawen", which was the name of a Kabyle confederation made up of eight tribes organized into two groups: the Ait Betrun (Ait Yenni, At Wasif, Ait Budrar, Ait Bu Akkash), and the Ait Mengellet (Ait Mengellet proper, Ait ...
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
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The Black Spring (Kabyle: Tafsut Taberkant) was a series of protests and political demonstrations by Kabyle activists in the Kabylie region of Algeria in 2001, which were met by repressive and violent police measures and became a potent symbol of Kabyle discontent with the national government.
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.