Tifinagh (, also written in the Berber Latin alphabet, in Neo-Tifinagh, and in the Berber Arabic alphabet ) is a series of abjad and alphabetic scripts used by some Berber peoples, notably the Tuareg, to write their languages.

It is therefore most likely that Terence was of Libyan descent, considered ancestors to the modern-day Berber peoples.

As with most Saharan peoples, the tribes reflect a highly mixed heritage, combining Arab, Berber, and other influences, including black African ethnic and cultural characteristics.

* Valerian reforms Legio III Augusta to fight the " five peoples ", a dangerous coalition of Berber tribes in Africa.

The Berbers of North Africa were among the many peoples called " Barbarian " by the Romans ; in their case, the name remained in use, having been adopted by the Arabs ( see Berber etymology ) and is still in use as the name for the non-Arabs in North Africa ( though not by themselves ).

Research into the genetics of the Guanche population have led to the conclusion that they share an ancestry with Berber peoples.

" In 252, Valerian reformed the legion to deal with the " five peoples ", a dangerous coalition of Berber tribes.

After Byzantine rule, Sicily was conquered by Arab and Berber peoples, resulting in the introduction of Islam into Sicily.

Early Christian influences persisted for several centuries, until the Moors and Arab Berber peoples ( from North Africa ) invaded the entire Peninsula ( except for a portion of Asturian mountains of northern Spain ).

Chamberlain grouped all European peoples — not just Germanics, but Celts, Slavs, Greeks, and Latins — as well as Berbers from North Africa-" The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber ( from the Aryan family ) and his veins are so full of Gothic blood that even at the present day noble inhabitants of Morocco can trace their descent back to Teutonic ancestors " into the " Aryan race ," a race built on the ancient Proto-Indo-European culture.

As with most Saharan peoples, the tribes culture is mixed, showing Arab, Berber, and black African characteristics.

As with most Saharan peoples, the tribes reflect a highly mixed heritage, combining Arab, Berber, and other influences, including black African ethnic and cultural characteristics.

Zenata were an ethnic group of North Africa, who were a group of various Central and Eastern Berber peoples and were found in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

Islamists consider this to be dishonorable to herself and her family, thus imposing fundamentalist Arab Muslim beliefs on the Berber peoples.

The Sous is inhabited by Berber peoples ; aside from some Arabic-speaking tribes, the main inhabitants are the Chleuh ( ašlḥi, Shilha, Sousis ), speakers of a distinct Berber language called Shilha or Sous Berber ( Tashelhiyt or Tasoussit ).

On 6 April 2012, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad issued a declaration of independence for the territory it claims as a homeland for the Tuareg, a Berber people, citing what it alleged to be discrimination against the indigenous peoples of the Azawad by the government of Mali.

Modern Historians rank this Berber region within the group of Numidians and Getules or the much more ancient such as Meshwesh, Massylii and Mazaxes peoples.

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 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.

At the end of the 11th century, two Berber tribes, the Almoravids and the Almohads, captured the head of the Maghreb and Spain, successively, bringing Maghrebi influences into art.

The traditional culture of Siwa shows many features unusual in Egypt, some reflecting its longstanding links with the Maghreb and the fact that the inhabitants are of Berber origin.

The Maghreb ( Arabic: المغرب, Berber: Tamazɣa ) is usually defined as much or most of the region of Northwest Africa, west of Egypt.

Najmah was originally a Berber ( from the Maghreb i. e. Northwest Africa ).

‘ Alī al-Hādī was born in Medina to the ninth Shī ‘ ah Imām, Muhammad al-Taqi, ( also known as Imam Muhammad al-Jawad ), and Lady Sumānah who was originally a Berber ( from the Maghreb i. e. Northwest Africa ).

Blond hair is also a common sight among Berbers of North Africa, especially in the Rif and Kabyle region and also among Maghreb Arabs of Berber descent.

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.

Tamazgha ( in Tifinagh script: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵖⴰ ) is a Berber word employed for the area more often known as the Maghreb or North Africa, covering the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Niger River, from Siwa Oasis to the Canary Islands.

In the Arab Middle East and North Africa, colloquial Arabic dialects, most especially Levantine, Egyptian, and Maghreb dialects, often exhibit significant subtrata from other regional Semitic, Iranian, Turkic, and Berber languages as well as colonial European languages due to the regions ' long histories of indigenous multiculturalism as well as foreign imperialism.

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.

In 1014 Hammad ibn Buluggin, a Berber who had been placed as governor of central Maghreb, declared himself independent from the Zirids, then ruling most of Maghreb from Morocco to Tunisia, and obtained the recognition from the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad.

* Ben Saidi, A ( 2003 ) Amazigh Kateb Yassin discusses Maghreb Blues and Ghanawa Music-a diffusion of Berber, Arabic genres

Darija has a vocabulary mostly from Arabic, with significant Berber substrates, some loan-words from Berber and also from French and to some degree from Spanish and even Italian, the languages of the historical European occupiers of the Maghreb.

* History of ancient Berber Numidia in the Maghreb of North Africa.

The Northern Berber languages form a dialect continuum across the Maghreb that constitute a branch of the Berber language subgroup of the Afroasiatic family.

* Central Maghreb Berber

They are the founders of several Berber states in the Maghreb, Europe and Africa.

Darija has acquired the majority of its vocabulary from Berber ( Tamazight ) language, however it also includes significant overtones of Arabic as well as extensive borrowings from French, and to a lesser extent Castilian Spanish and even Italian ( primarily in Libya ) – the languages of the historical colonial occupiers of the Maghreb.

At least as early as this period, troublesome Berber tribes, one of which was identified in Egyptian records as the Levu ( or " Libyans "), were raiding eastward as far as the Nile Delta and attempting to settle there.

Arab-Berber relations were inconsistent and often tense in the early years – while some Arab governors encouraged Berbers to participate in the new Islamic state and cultivated their Berber lieutenants, others regarded them as little more than a conquered people, imposing high taxes and tribute demands upon Berber populations and treating Berber auxiliaries rather shabbily.

In the early 14th century, Ibn Battuta, a Berber traveller from North Africa, visited Kilwa and proclaimed it one of the best cities in the world.

Undoubtedly, the most ancient Berbers had various names for their land and settlements here, one early Punic-era Berber name being Massyli.

Previously, the only connection was through Transsaharan trade, of which the Mali Empire, consisting predominantly of African and Berber tribes, stands as a strong proof of the early Islamization of the Sub-Saharan region.

It is thought that Neith may correspond to the goddess Tanit, worshipped in north Africa by the early Berber culture ( existing from the beginnings of written records ) and through the first Punic culture originating from the founding of Carthage by Dido.

Basset links it to a Berber tribal name swh attested further west in the early Islamic period, while Ilahiane, following Chafik, links it to the Tashelhiyt Berber word asiwan, a type of prey bird, and hence to Amon-Ra, one of whose symbols was the falcon.

Landings and attacks by Berber pirates were also frequent in the 16th century, and continued until the early 18th century.

The Misrata tribe, a section of the larger Berber Hawwara confederacy, inhabited the coastal region of Tripolitania during the Roman and early Arab eras.

The most accepted explanation is that the name derives from the Misrata tribe, a section of the larger Berber Hawwara confederacy, whose homeland in Roman and early Arab times was coastal Tripolitania.

The Italians were resisted in their early attempts at conquest by Berber and Arab adherents to the militant Sanusiya Sufi religious order.

Until the Phoenicians ' arrival, Berber was spoken throughout Algeria, as later attested by early Tifinagh inscriptions.

In later centuries, Dihyā's legend was used to bolster the claims of Berbers in al-Andalūs against Arab claims of ethnic supremacy — in the early modern age, she was used by French colonials, Berber nationalists, Arab Nationalists, North African Jews, North African feminists, and Maghrebi nationalists alike for their own didactic purposes.

Ammouri M ' barek Singer and Song writer ( Considered to be, the john lennon-Beatles in the Berber World, singing since the early 1960s and now ; Nekk dik a nmun ( 1978 ) Cd Album ).

Berber and Arab adherents to a militant Sufi religious order, the Sanusiya, resisted early Italian attempts at conquest, and Italy's control of the region was precarious until at least 1923, with the rise of the Italian Fascist regime.

* In the northern mountains of what is now Niger, in the early 15th century, a state called Aïr was founded by the Tuareg confederation there, under an amenokal, who was also designated by the Arabic Muslim title Sultan, hence it is also called a Berber sultanate.

In the early 11th century, centralized authority based at Córdoba broke down following the Berber invasion and the ousting of the Umayyads.

During the eighth century the Lamtuna created a kingdom out of a confederation of Berber tribes, which they dominated until the early tenth century.

The early Christian Berber author, Tertullian, writing in the third century, said that " Christianity could even be found in Britain.