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 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.

In 1269, a new association of African tribes, the Marinid, had taken control of the Maghreb, and most of the former Almohad empire was under their rule.

According to a study in 2009, nearly 42 % of all newborns in Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur in 2007 had at least one parent originated from Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa or Overseas departments and territories of France.

While Egypt as a part of the wider Ancient Near East had entered historicity since the Bronze Age, the Maghreb remained in the prehistoric period longer.

Partially isolated from the rest of the continent by the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara desert, inhabitants of the northern parts of the Maghreb have long had commercial and cultural ties to the inhabitants of the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe and Western Asia, going back at least to the Phoenicians in the 1st millenium BC ( the Phoenician colony of Carthage having been founded, according to tradition, in what is now Tunisia circa 800 BC ).

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.

The Gnawa population is generally believed to originate from the Sahelian region of West and Central Africa, which had long and extensive trading and political ties with the Maghreb and Algeria specifically, including gold and slave trades.

Their influx was a major factor in the linguistic, cultural and ethnic Arabization of the Maghreb, and in the spread of nomadism in areas where agriculture had previously been dominant.

By 1500, it had risen to stretch from Cameroon to the Maghreb, the largest state in African history.

One pretender to the throne of Toledo, perhaps Achila or more accurately Oppa that escaped to Ceuta ( Morocco ), had the local count Uluoin asking the troops of the Maghreb to help him conquer his rival Roderic.

Private agreements among the United Kingdom, Italy and France in 1904, made without consulting the sultan, had divided the Maghreb into spheres of influence, with France given Morocco.

With the political threat of the Abbasid Caliphate gone, these soon reverted to Sunni Islam-specifically, the Maliki branch, whose popularity had spread widely in the Maghreb.

The Kotamas were also the source of the first Islamic dynasty of indigenous Berbers in the Maghreb, the Zirids ( 972-1148 ), founded by the Kutama general Buluggin ibn Ziri ( also: Bologhine ibn Ziri, Bologhin ibn Ziri ), son of the Fatimid governor of the Maghreb, Ziri ibn Manad, who had been rewarded with his position after defeating the Kharijite rebellion of Abu Yazid ( 943-947 ).

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 ".

As a young man he accompanied an uncle on a diplomatic mission to the Maghreb, reaching as far as the city of Timbuktu ( c. 1510 ), then part of the Songhai Empire.

The Capsian culture brought Morocco into the Neolithic about 2001 BC, at a time when the Maghreb was less arid than it is today.

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.

Forced conversions occurred mostly in the Maghreb, especially under the Almohads, a militant dynasty with messianic claims, as well as in Persia, where Shi ' a Muslims were generally less tolerant than their Sunni counterparts.

In 2008, Benbitour said that relaunching the Maghreb Union, rather than a Union for the Mediterranean, would be better for Algeria.

Similarly, in Darja ( Arabic as spoken in the Maghreb ), there are two distinct singular second-person pronouns, one masculine ( used when addressing a man ) and one feminine ( used when addressing a woman ); but when used as generic pronouns, the speaker uses the pronoun with the gender corresponding to his or her own sex, rather than that of the person he or she is addressing.

Differences in Tunisia, like the rest of the Maghreb, are largely north-south environmental differences defined by sharply decreasing rainfall southward from any point.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 ).

* 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.

In Maghreb ( western North Africa ) in 686 a force led by Zuhayr ibn Qais won the Battle of Mamma over Byzantines and Berbers led by Kusaila, on the Qairawan plain, and re-took Ifriqiya and its capital Kairouan.

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.