Wikipedia's first sentence called it “ethnic group that had”. Today it says “indigenous ethnic group of the maghreb region of north africa”.
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History of the Berber people who converted to Islam ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The Berbers ( autonym : Imazighen ) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Maghreb region of North Africa .1 Following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb , most Berber tribes eventually became Muslims. Presently, about one-sixth of the population of Maghreb speaks one of the Berber languages (mostly in Algeria and Morocco), but most of them also speak some form of Arabic. Berbers are the first non-Arab people to have established an Islamic state.
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The opening as it stood in 2010
The Berbers (Imazighen) are an ethnic group that had, until recently, few links to the Arabs . They have existed in ancient Mauretania , Numidia , Ifriqiya and Tripolitania , (present-day Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Libya respectively) for thousands of years. Most Berbers have converted to Islam over the course several centuries.
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The Berbers ( autonym : Imazighen ) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Maghreb region of North Africa .Following the Islamic conquest of North Africa , most Berber tribes eventually became Muslims, and today Arab-Berbers (of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry) and Arabized Berbers (Berbers who have assimilated into the Arab population ) make up the majority of the populations of the Maghreb.
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The Berbers ( autonym : Imazighen ) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Maghreb region of North Africa .Following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb , most Berber tribes eventually became Muslims.Presently, about one-sixth of the population of Maghreb speaks one of the Berber languages (mostly in Algeria and Morocco), but most of them also speak some form of Arabic.Berbers are the first non-Arab people to have established an Islamic state.
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History of the Berber people who converted to Islam The Berbers ( autonym : Imazighen ) are an indigenous ethnic group of the Maghreb region of North Africa . Following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb , most Berber tribes eventually became Muslims. Presently, about one-sixth of the population of Maghreb speaks one of the Berber languages (mostly in Algeria and Morocco), but most of them also speak some form of Arabic. Berbers are the first non-Arab people to have established an Islamic state.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “ethnic group that had”. Today it says “indigenous ethnic group of the maghreb region of north africa”. Read the current article and compare.
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ethnic group that had
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indigenous ethnic group of the maghreb region of north africa
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