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  • "Berbers" -- an ancient stock, racially European rather than Asiatic or negroid, and closely akin to the "Latin" peoples across the

    The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

  • Jeffrey Tayler, "Morocco's Mountain Berbers," National Geographic January 2005, p. 90.

    Another Day in the Ketchup Mine 2005

  • The Islamization of the Berbers was a consequence of the Arab conquest, although they were neither forcibly converted to Islam nor systematically missionized by their conquerors.

    Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001

  • The Islamization of the Berbers was a consequence of the Arab conquest, although they were neither forcibly converted to Islam nor systematically missionized by their conquerors.

    Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001

  • The Berbers are the aborigines of Morocco, and live more or less in the hills and mountains, into which they were driven by the Arabs in the seventh century, when they overran Morocco.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • Kabaw is home to about 10,000 Amazigh people, also known as Berbers, who speak their own language, have their own customs and were intensely repressed by Libyan autocrat Moammar Gadhafi.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • A joyous awakening for Libya's Berbers After 42 years of repression by Gadhafi, the Amazigh people, also known as Berbers, rejoice in their newfound freedom and finally celebrate their culture.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Gadhafi has dubbed Berbers as 'product of colonialism' created by the west to divide Libya.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Gadhafi has dubbed Berbers a "product of colonialism" created by the west to divide Libya.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • The Rif region, which is inhabited largely by the Amazigh, also known as Berbers, sought independence from both Spain and Morocco in the 1920s.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009

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