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300 |
About this time Berbers from North Africa began to rule Ghana and continued for about the next 400 years. They are thought to have originated as nomads from the Middle East. Links: Berbers 
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644 700 |
Muslims began a wave of invasions across North Africa. Arabic was imposed on the local Berbers after the Muslims conquered Morocco. Links: Berbers
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703 |
Dihya or Al-Kahina, a Jewish Berber queen and a religious and military leader, died about this time at the Battle of Tabarka (701 and 702 are also possible dates for this battle. She had led indigenous resistance to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, the region then known as Numidia. She was born in the early 7th century and died around the end of the 7th century in modern-day Algeria. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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711 Jul 9 |
Berbers under Tarik-ibn Ziyad occupied Northern Spain. Links: Berbers More
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741 |
The Arab slave trade was one of the elements that sparked the great Berber rebellion in North Africa and Islamic Spain (http://tinyurl.com/2zrltp). Links: Berbers, Spain, Islam
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887 |
Ibn Firnas (b.810), a Muslim Berber, polymath, inventor, engineer, aviator, physician, Arabic poet, and Andalusian musician, died. He is said to have jumped from a height, wings attached and covered head to toe in feathers, in a failed attempt at flying, although he survived the jump. Links: Berbers, Poet, Math, Inventor
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900 1000 |
The Bourghwata kingdom translated the Koran into Berber, but the kingdom was vanquished by Sunni Muslim puritans. Links: Berbers
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992 |
Ghana captured its chief trading rival, the Berber town of Audoghast. Links: Berbers
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1062 |
Marrakech [Marrakesh], the Arab name for Morocco, was built as a fortified city by the first Berber dynasty, the Almoravids. It was the terminus of a trade route running southward to the Niger River and of another running eastward to Cairo. Links: Berbers, Morocco
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1382 |
Ibn Khaldun (d.1406), Berber historian, was born in Tunis. He was also a social scientist and political activist and developed theories on economics and politics. He authored the "Muqaddimah" (introduction to history), that gave an in-depth analysis of the cyclical nature of the rise, maturation and decline of political regimes and economies. “Only tribes held together by a group feeling can survive in a desert.” Links: Berbers, Historian, Tunisia
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1444 |
Slaves from Africa were first carried to Portugal. Europe’s first modern-era slave market was established in Portugal. Lancarote de Freitas returned to Lagos, Portugal, with his small fleet of six ships and 235 Berbers, kidnapped from a region of West Africa (Mauritania). Links: Berbers, Portugal, Mauritania, Slavery
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1980 |
In Algeria Berber anti-government sentiment was mobilized in the "Tamazight Spring" uprising. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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1988 Oct 11 |
Violence began to subside in Algeria, where mass rioting by youths had broken out a week earlier, prompting the government to declare a state of siege. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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1988 Oct |
Berber riots left hundreds dead in the "Black October" riots. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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1988 Oct |
Berber riots left hundreds dead in the “Black October” riots. Links: Berbers
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1994 Sep |
Lounes Matoub, a popular Berber singer, was kidnapped by Islamic militants. He was held for over 2 weeks and released after over 100,000 people demonstrated for his freedom. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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1994 Sep |
In Algeria Lounes Matoub, a popular Berber singer, was kidnapped by Islamic militants. He was held for over 2 weeks and released after over 100,000 people demonstrated for his freedom. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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1996 Nov 28 |
In Algeria a referendum was passed that banned political parties based on relig-ion, language and regionalism, a reference to the large Berber community which has long worked for recognition of its language. Opponents denounced the elections as a sham. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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1998 Jul 5 |
Algeria celebrated independence and put into effect a new law making Arabic the country’s sole official language. The Berber minority struggled to have the government recognize their own language, Tamazight. Links: Algeria, Berbers, Language
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2000 Mar |
In Morocco Berbers submitted the “Berber Manifesto,” which called on the state to recognize Tamazight as a national language. Links: Berbers
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2001 Apr 18 |
In Algeria a Berber teenager died while being held in a police station. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2001 Jun 18 |
In Algeria’s Kabyle region 3 police officers were killed and dozens injured in riots provoked by the April 18 death of a Berber teenager in a police station. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2001 Oct 4 |
Algeria’s Pres. Bouteflika promised to recognize the Berber language, compensate victims of police brutality and prosecute police involved in brutality. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2002 May 30 |
In Algeria legislative elections for the 380-seat parliament were held. 2 key parties planned to boycott as did many ethnic Berbers of the Kabylia region. Islamic militants massacred 23 nomads. Berber riots took place. The national Liberation Front of PM Ali Benflis won 199 of 389 seats. The turnout was just 46%. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2002 Oct 10 |
In Algeria Prime Minister Ali Benflis' party swept local elections, with voting in the restive Berber region marred by a boycott, riots and attacks on police officers. The National Liberation Front gained control of 668 out of 1,541 town councils and took 43 of 48 district councils. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2005 Jan 16 |
Algeria's government signed an agreement to end years of conflict with the restive Berber minority, pledging to accept long-standing demands including greater recognition of the Berber language. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2006 |
Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi lifted a ban on Berber names. Links: Berbers, Libya
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2007 Feb 19 |
An official said Algeria has translated the Koran into the Berber language, Tamazight, for the first time, to promote Islam among a community that has long campaigned for more language and cultural rights. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2011 Jun 29 |
French daily Le Figaro reported that France has begun parachuting arms shipments to Berber rebels fighting Kadhafi's forces in the highlands south of Tripoli. Links: Berbers, France, Libya
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2011 Nov 27 |
Hundreds of Libya's minority Amazigh Berbers marched to the premier's office for the second time in three days, stepping up pressure to be represented in the government. During Kadhafi's rule the Amazighs, whose name means "free men," were banned from publicly speaking, writing or printing anything in their own tongue, tamazight. Links: Berbers, Libya
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2012 Oct 14 |
In Algeria Inalg Bekkai Boualem, also known as Khaled El Mig, the head of external relations for AQIM, was killed. Over the next two weeks, four other suspected AQIM militants were ambushed and killed by security forces following tipoffs from the local Berber population in the Kabylie mountains. Links: Algeria, Berbers
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2014 Oct 13 |
In Algeria clashes broken out between Arabs and Berbers near the southern desert town of Ghardaia, with two people killed and businesses torched. National Police Chief Abdelghani Hamel visited the province in a bid to restore calm after hundreds of policemen staged a march in Ghardaia to protest against attacks on them by gangs of youths. Links: Algeria, Berbers, Arab
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2014 Oct 17 |
Hurricane Gonzalo crushed trees, flattened power lines and damaged Bermuda's main hospital during an hours-long battering, but the tiny, wealthy British territory suffered no deaths. Links: Berbers, Hurricane
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2016 Sep 26 |
Morocco adopted Amazigh spoken by its Berber community as an official language alongside Arabic, rounding off a reform program launched by King Mohammed VI in 2011. Links: Berbers, Morocco, Language
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2016 |
Algeria officially recognized the Berber language, spoken by about a quarter of the population. Links: Algeria, Berbers, Language
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2018 Jan 12 |
Algerian Berbers marked their New Year as a public holiday with feasts, dancing and horse parades, a first for the North Africa region where indigenous peoples have long suffered marginalization. On December 27 veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika had decreed that Yennayer would become an official holiday for the first time "to strengthen national unity". Links: Algeria, Berbers
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