Kabyle people

The Kabyle people are the Algiers. They form up the largest Berber-speaking population of Algeria as well as thelargest in North Africa.

Many of a Kabyles do emigrated from Algeria, influenced by factors such(a) as the Algerian Civil War, cultural repression by the central Algerian government, in addition to overall industrial decline. Their diaspora has resulted in Kabyle people living in many countries. Large populations of Kabyle people settled in France and, to a lesser extent, Canada mainly Québec and United States.

The Kabyle people speak Kabyle, a Berber language. Since the Berber Spring of 1980, they produce been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of Berber languages in Algeria.

Geography

The geography of the Kabyle region played an important role in the people's history. The unmanageable mountainous landscape of the Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia provinces served as a refuge, to which nearly of the Kabyle people retreated when under pressure or occupation. They were experienced to preserve their cultural heritage in such(a) isolation from other cultural influences.

The area supported local dynasties Numidia, Fatimids in the Kutama periods, Zirids, Hammadids, and Hafsids of Bejaïa or Algerian sophisticated nationalism, and the war of independence. The region was repeatedly occupied by various conquerors. Romans and Byzantines controlled the leading road and valley during the period of antiquity and avoided the mountains Mont ferratus. During the spread of Islam, Arabs controlled plains but non all the countryside they were called el aadua: enemy by the Kabyle.

The makhzen tribes of Amraoua, and marabout.

The French gradually and completely conquered the region and sort up a direct administration.

Algerian provinces with significant Kabyle-speaking populations increase Tizi Ouzou, Béjaïa and Bouira, where they are a majority, as living as Boumerdes, Setif, Bordj Bou Arreridj, and Jijel. Algiers also has a significant Kabyle population, where they make up more than half of the capital's population.

The Kabyle region is identified to as Al Qabayel "tribes" by the Arabic-speaking population and as Kabylie in French. Its indigenous inhabitants requested it Tamurt Idurar "Land of Mountains" or Tamurt n Iqbayliyen/Tamurt n Iqbayliyen "Land of the Kabyle". this is the for element of the Atlas Mountains and is located at the edge of the Mediterranean.