The Berber Spring (in Berber: Tafsut Imaziɣen or simply Tafsut for "Spring") was a period of political protest and civil activism in 1980, claiming recognition...
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Berberism is a Berber ethnonationalist movement, that started mainly in Kabylia (Algeria) and Morocco during the French colonial era with the Kabyle myth...
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"Black Spring" alludes to the events known as the Berber Spring of the 1980s, in which mainly Kabyle civil society activists challenged the ban on Berber culture...
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The Berber flag or Amazigh flag is an ethnic flag used as a common symbol of related ethnic groups in North Africa. The flag was created to symbolize culture...
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question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tifinagh letters. Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping...
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Maghreb, most Berber tribes eventually became Muslims. Presently, about one-sixth of the population of Maghreb speaks one of the Berber languages (mostly...
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The Berber Revolt or the Kharijite Revolt of 740–743 AD (122–125 AH in the Islamic calendar) took place during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn...
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Kabyle people (category Pages with Berber languages IPA)
Kabyle, a Berber language. Since the Berber Spring of 1980, they have been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of Berber languages...
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Spring break is a vacation period at universities and schools that includes the Easter holiday, and takes place in early Northern Hemisphere spring. Introduced...
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question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch...
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Siwa Oasis (category Berber populated places)
Smith, Sylvia (31 August 2011). "Flying the flag for North Africa's 'Berber spring'". BBC News. Morocco. al-Naghy, Omar (29 September 2015). "Who are Egypt's...
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an identity marker of the Berber cause. Following numerous events which took place in Kabylia in the 1980s (Berber Spring), and because the name of this...
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The Berber calendar (Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵙⵡⴰⵙⵜ ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ, romanized: taswast tamaziɣt) is the agricultural calendar traditionally used by Berbers (Amazigh...
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Arabized Berbers are Berbers whose language is a local dialect of Arabic and whose culture is Arab culture, as a result of Arabization. The widespread...
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Kabylia (category Berbers in Algeria)
Kabyle vocabulary. Since the Berber Spring in 1980, Kabyles have been at the forefront of the fight for recognition of the Berber as an official language in...
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was sentenced to one year in prison for commemorating the Berber Spring and the Black Spring. Biography portal U.S. Department of State report "Algeria"...
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Berber tribes are tribes of Berber descent inhabiting the Maghreb region. They are traditionally divided into three large tribal confederations: Masmuda...
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Numidia (category Berber dynasties)
defeated Syphax of the Masaesyli to unify Numidia into the first unified Berber state for Numidians in present-day Algeria. The kingdom began as a sovereign...
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Numidians (category Berber peoples and tribes)
The Numidians were the Berber population of Numidia (present-day Algeria). The Numidians were originally a semi-nomadic people, they migrated frequently...
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The Libyco-Berber alphabet is an abjad writing system that was used during the first millennium BC by various Berber peoples of North Africa and the Canary...
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jama'a of Basra to Kairouan. By 740, their efforts had converted the major Berber tribes of Huwara around Tripoli, in the Nafusa Mountains and at Zenata in...
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unwieldy state corporations. The Benjedid regime was also marked by the Berber Spring protests from Kabyle university students who objected to Arabization...
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Tifinagh (redirect from Berber script)
Berber language: ⵜⴼⵏⵗ; Neo-Tifinagh: ⵜⵉⴼⵉⵏⴰⵖ; Berber Latin alphabet: Tifinaɣ; Berber pronunciation: [tifinaɣ]) is a script used to write the Berber languages...
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Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the...
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Look up Berber in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The indigenous population of the Maghreb region of North Africa encompass a diverse grouping of several...
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Shilha people (category Articles with text in Berber languages)
Shilha people (Berber languages: ⵉⵛⵍⵃⵉⵢⵏ, romanized: išelḥiyen, Arabic: الشلوح, romanized: aš-šlūḥ), or Schleuh or Ishelhien, are a Berber subgroup primarily...
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vernacular. Berber Various Berber languages are also spoken, including Tamahaq, Ghadamès, Nafusi, Zuwara, Yefren, Fezzan, Kufra and Awjilah. Both Berber and Arabic...
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inevitably came into conflict with many neighbours and rivals, from the Berbers of North Africa to the nascent Roman Republic. Following centuries of conflict...
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For nearly 250 years, Berber kings of the 'House of Masinissa' ruled in Numidia in modern day Algeria, and later in adjacent regions, first as sovereigns...
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When the Vandals and the Berber kingdom of Dorsale came into conflict yet again, Hoamer suffered a decisive defeat by the Berbers led by Guenfan and his...
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