The Almoravids ( Imṛabḍen, Al-Murābiṭūn ) were a Berber dynasty of Morocco, who formed an empire in the 11th-century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus.

The Berber peoples of the Maghreb in the early Middle Ages could be roughly classified into three major groups-the Zenata across the north, the Masmuda concentrated in central Morocco and the Sanhaja, clustered in two areas-the western part of the Sahara and the hills of the eastern Maghreb.

The western part of the empire, Gaul, Iberia, and the Maghreb were invaded by nomadic horse peoples from the Eurasian steppe.

The situation changed in the mid-12th century, when the Almoravids, were displaced from al-Andalus and western Maghreb by the Almohad.

While philosophy did indeed decline in the western Islamic world ( Al-Andalus and the Maghreb ), recent research has shown that philosophy continued long after in the eastern Islamic world ( Persia and India ), where the Avicennian, Illuminationist and Sufi schools predominated, until Islamic philosophy reached its zenith with Mulla Sadra's existentialist school of transcendent theosophy in the 17th century.

For the rest of that year and in throughout early 1176, Qaraqush continued his raids in western North Africa, bringing the Ayyubids into conflict with the Almohads who ruled the Maghreb.

While the House Sparrow and the Spanish Sparrow form a " hybrid swarm " in the eastern half of the Maghreb, they coexist with little hybridisation in the western half.

Throughout this period, the Maghreb most often was divided into three states roughly corresponding to modern Morocco, western Algeria, and eastern Algeria and Tunisia.

The cuisine of the Maghreb, the western region of North Africa that includes the six countries of Morocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Mauritania, is primarily a Berber and culinary traditions, with some European, Arab and Mediterranean influences.

Governments in Maghreb ( western Arab ) countries have long promoted Arabization as a nationalist platform.

After the split of the Hafsids from the Almohads under Abu Zakariya ( 1229 – 1249 ), Abu Zakariya organised the administration in Ifriqiya ( the Roman province of Africa in modern Maghreb ; today's Tunisia, eastern Algeria and western Libya ) and built Tunis up as the economic and cultural centre of the empire.

After the split of the Hafsids from the Almohads under Abu Zakariya ( 1229 – 1249 ), Abu Zakariya organised the administration in Ifriqiya ( the Roman province of Africa in modern Maghreb ; today's Tunisia, eastern Algeria and western Libya ) and built Tunis up as the economic and cultural centre of the empire.

* 1269: Seizure of Marrakesh and the end of Almohad domination of the western Maghreb.

One of the first written references is from an anonymous 13th-century North Africa / Andalusian cookbook, Kitāb al-tabǐkh fǐ al-Maghrib ( North Africa ) wa ' l-Andalus ( Arabic ) " The cookbook of the Maghreb and Al-Andalus ", with a recipe for couscous that was ' known all over the world '.

The biggest CBD of Casablanca and Maghreb is in the North of the town in Sidi Maarouf near the mosque of Hassan II and the biggest project of skycrapers of Maghreb and Africa Casablanca Marina.

The varieties of Arabic are considerably different from each other-especially those spoken in North Africa ( Maghreb ) from those of the Middle East ( the Mashriq in the broad definition including Egypt and Sudan )-and had there been the political will in the different Arab countries to cut themselves off from each other, the case could have been made to declare these varieties as separate languages.

The history of Algeria takes place in the fertile coastal plain of North Africa, which is often called the Maghreb ( or Maghrib ).

The 11th and 12th centuries witnessed the founding of several great Berber dynasties led by religious reformers and each based on a tribal confederation that dominated the Maghrib ( also seen as Maghreb ; refers to North Africa west of Egypt ) and Al-Andalus for more than 200 years.

Sephardim are Jews whose ancestors lived in Spain or Portugal, where they lived for possibly as much as a millennia before being finally expelled in 1492 by the Catholic Monarchs ( the Alhambra decree ); the Sephardic communities subsequently migrated to North Africa ( Maghreb ), Christian Europe ( Netherlands, Britain, France and Poland ), throughout the Ottoman Empire and even the newly discovered Latin America.

During the Trente Glorieuses ( 1945 – 1974 ), the country's reconstruction and steady economic growth led to the labor-immigration of the 1960s, when many employers found manpower in villages located in Southern Europe and in the Maghreb ( or North Africa ).

A location for Antaeus somewhere beyond the Maghreb might be quite flexible in longitude: when the Roman commander Quintus Sertorius crossed from Hispania to North Africa, he was told by the residents of Tingis ( Tangier ), far to the west of Libya, that the gigantic remains of Antaeus would be found within a certain tumulus ; digging it open, his men found giant bones ; closing the site, Sertorius made propitiatory offerings and " helped to magnify the tomb's reputation ".

For example, in the Maghreb ( in North Africa ), in time of drought the maidens of Ma. zouna carry every evening in procession through the streets a doll called ghonja, really a dressed-up wooden spoon, symbolizing a pre-Islamic rain-spirit.

North Africa was later conquered by the Arabs, who established the region as the Maghreb of the Arab world.

* Maghreb: As elsewhere in North Africa, lands formerly held by European farmers have been taken over.

A circumboreal species widespread across Europe and Asia, including the Indian subcontinent, Japan and the Maghreb and North America ( Many authors consider the Mustard White of North America to be conspecific with napi or consider napi to be a superspecies ).

The five modern states of North Africa established the Arab Maghreb Union in 1989 to promote cooperation and economic integration in a common market.

Many ports along the Maghreb coast were occupied or constructed by the Phoenicians, particularly the Carthaginians, whose main settlements along the North African littoral between the Pillars of Hercules and the Libyan coast east of ancient Cyrenaica, centered in the Gulf of Tunis ( Carthage, Utica ) dominated the trade and intercourse of the Western Mediterranean for centuries.

* North Saharan steppe and woodlands: This ecoregion lies along the northern edge of the Sahara, next to the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of the Mediterranean Maghreb and Cyrenaica.

The Y-chromosome genetic structure of the Maghreb population seems to be mainly modulated by geography, The Y-DNA Haplogroups E3b and J, which are so common among the population of North African and the Middle East, Haplogroups E3b and J, are the most widespread among North African groups especially E1b1b1b ( E-M81, formerly E3b1b ) which is typical of the indigenous Berbers of North-West Africa.

* Zlebia, the same sweet in the Maghreb ( North Africa )

The standard written language, Modern Standard Arabic, is based on the Classical Arabic of the Qur ' an, while the modern vernacular dialects ( or languages ) — which form a dialect continuum reaching from the Maghreb in North Western Africa through Egypt, Sudan, and the Fertile Crescent to the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq — have diverged widely from that.

He undertook to work towards preserving the integrity of the nations of the Maghreb, for peace and brotherhood among peoples renewing the North African Star.

It may be assumed that he intended to go at least as far as northwestern Africa ( Maghreb ), the land of his mother, which had been partly conquered by his Umayyad predecessors.

The recorded history of early civilization arose in Egypt, and later in Nubia, the Maghreb and the Horn of Africa.

The Maghreb had far greater proven wealth than the unknown rest of Africa and a location of strategic importance affecting the exit from the Mediterranean.

Geopolitical benefits are evident because ties to Morocco means that an ally is established in Africa, in the Maghreb region, and among the Arab states.

The other species is the closely related, but less commercially viable, Rosmarinus eriocalyx, of the Maghreb of Africa and Iberia.

It provided connections with the Muslim and Arab trade centers, particularly for gold from sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb.

Albert Camus was a Pied-Noir ( black foot ) – a Frenchman born in the Maghreb, the northernmost crescent of Mediterranean Africa then the heart of France's African colonies.

* Barbary wild boar Sus scrofa algira: Maghreb in Africa.

* the working class districts taking in a lot of immigrated people: Barbès ( Maghreb ) in the south east, Château Rouge ( black Africa ) in the east,

* Maghreb region of North-Western Africa

In 2005, 56. 7 % of young under 18 were of foreign origin including 38 % of African origin ( 22 % from Maghreb and 16 % from Sub-Saharan Africa ).

A marabout ( marbūṭ or murābiṭ, " one who is attached / garrisoned ") is a Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa, and ( historically ) in the Maghreb.