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Kabyles
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Kabyles (kəbīlz`), people, predominantly agricultural, of North Africa, whose center is the rugged Kabylia region of Algeria. Of uncertain origin, they form one of the larger divisions of the Berbers Berbers, aboriginal Caucasoid peoples of N Africa, called Imazighen in the Tamazight language. They inhabit the lands lying between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea and between Egypt and the Atlantic Ocean.
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. Known for their fierce resistance to the successive conquerors of the region, they were slow to adopt the Muslim religion and Arabic speech and in Great Kabylia (the central and southern region of Algeria) they still retain their vernacular.
Kabyles 

a Berber people inhabiting the mountainous areas of northern Algeria. They number about 1, 300, 000 (1970, estimate). Their language is related to the Berber languages, and the majority of the Kabyles also speak Arabic. They are Sunni Muslims. Their principal occupations are agriculture and livestock raising.

REFERENCES

Narody Afriki. Moscow-Leningrad, 1954.
Morizot, J. L’Algérie kabylisée. Paris, 1962.


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5) Martinez's valorization of a disappearing art form such as Kabyle wall murals, his choice to display his series of artworks in Kabylia, and his engagement of the local community were significant political gestures intended to pay respect to the Kabyle people.
51 DT298 Now an anthropologist and historian in Germany, Makilam is also an initiate in the local traditions of pottery-making and its esoteric writing system of her native Kabyle people, Berber-speaking people of Algeria.
To the Kabyle people of Algeria speed is considered both indecorous and demonically over-competitive.
 
 
 
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