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North Africa

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The North Africa is the region of mainland Africa north of the Sahara desert.

North Africa is sometimes called "white Africa" , so that Reclus saw in North Africa an appendage of the arc latin .

Summary

/ / Geography

Countries and territories of North Africa today:

of Algeria ;
two exclaves Spain , Ceuta and Melilla ;
of Libya ;
the Morocco ;
of Mauritania ;
the Western Sahara , disputed territory claimed by Morocco and the SADR ;
of Tunisia ;
of Egypt.

The United Nations also includes the Sudan in North Africa.

History

"Libya", according to the reconstruction of the world described by Herodotus

The remains of human presence in North Africa date back to 400,000 years old assigned to the remains of (Atlanthropians) found in the sediments of Lake prehistoric Ternifine ( Tighennif near Mascara ) Algeria. The Atlanthropians, a contemporary of Peking man and Pithecanthropus from Java , whose bones were found among the stone tools he made, stayed here.

The Time of the North African Berbers

The Berbers still in a huge area that begins just west of Egypt. Currently Berber-speaking populations live in a dozen African countries, the Mediterranean in southern Niger, the Atlantic near the Nile. Natives of North Africa Berbers are the indigenous people and the Coptic (Egyptian). Peoples Berbers are peoples speaking similar languages and all who inhabited North Africa since the West Nile Valley to the Canary Islands before the Roman colonization. The origin of the Jews in North Africa. According to a legend of the Hoggar , the Jews behind the iron craftwork. ^{Time for North Africa White}

The "white Africa" once referred to the Mediterranean regions: Morocco , Egypt , Mauritania , Algeria , Tunisia , Western Sahara , Libya . ^{Terms neighbors}

Barbary, the word "Berber", a term corresponding to the territory inhabited by the Berbers , natives of North Africa. Giving the equivalent Tamazgha Berber. Similarly, the ancient Libya designated the territory of the Libyans , the Berbers ancestor.

The Maghreb (the Arabic " The Sunset "), refers to North Africa, and cover, if we speak of Petit Maghreb, Morocco , the Algeria and Tunisia. Le Grand Maghreb account, in addition to these three countries, Libya and Mauritania.

During the Antiquity , Africa meant the region of Carthage , which corresponds to present Tunisia and parts of North-East of Algeria. The Africa has established several provinces of the Roman Empire. After the Arab-Muslim conquest , the name was perpetuated in the form Arabized Ifriqiya.

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References

Charles-Andre Julien , History of White Africa , PUF, 1966
Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Vrin, 1987, p.74
Claude Liauzu , Europe and Mediterranean Africa: Suez (1869) to today, Editions Complexe, 1994, p.216

Countries and dependencies of Africa

North Africa	Algeria Egypt Libya Morocco Mauritania Sudan Tunisia	West Africa	Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Cte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo
Central Africa	Cameroon Central African Republic Republic of Congo Democratic Republic of Congo Gabon Equatorial Guinea Sao Tome and Principe Chad	East Africa	Burundi Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Rwanda Seychelles Somalia Tanzania
Southern Africa	South Africa Angola Botswana Comoros Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Maurice Mozambique Namibia Swaziland Zambia Zimbabwe	Territories and dependencies	Canary Islands Ceuta Scattered Islands Madeira Mayotte Melilla Puntland Runion St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Western Sahara Somaliland Territory British Indian Ocean Zanzibar