List of Maghrebis

Ancient

Maghrebis

Maghrebis or Maghrebians are the inhabitants of the Maghreb countries in western North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania). The bulk of the Maghrebis population is made up primarily from the Berbers (both arabophone and berberophone) known in antiquity as the Libyans (lebu/rebu for the ancient Egyptians, LBY/LBT for the Phoenicians, and Λίβυοι; Libyoi for the ancient Greeks). They are white to olive-skinned Caucasoid people and the first modern humans to settle in North Africa. The Maghrebis are also made up from people of Phoenician origin (Carthaginians), of Roman origin (Roman Africa), of Hellenic origin (Byzantine Africa), of Egyptian and Levantin origin (Muslim conquest of North Africa), of Iberian origin (native Andalusians fleeing the Reconquista, or Portuguese), of Italian origin (migration in Tunisia, Libya and Algeria), of Turkic, Balkan or other Mediterranean origin (such as descendant of Janissaries for Tunisia, Libya and Algeria) as well as of Sub-Saharan origin (Trans-Saharan trade).