Medieval Arab-Berber warfare | History Forum
Feb 23, 2014 · The obvious one is the curved sword as against the straighter, saxon/visigothic-type sword - What were the military differences between Arabs and Berbers? According to the Total War …
Why did the Barcas (2 berbers) fight so valiantly for the Carthaginian ...
Dec 4, 2024 · Why did the Barcas (2 berbers) fight so valiantly for the Carthaginian empire, when it's Phoenician elites treated their Berber peasantry horribly?
How deep was the mixing between the Berbers and Germanics under …
Possibly some, but I doubt the vandal immigration was incredibly significant enough to displace or completely change the appearance of the native Berbers. I know some people claim the Berbers …
Origins of the North African Berbers? | History Forum
Aug 23, 2014 · Does this mean the Berbers rather came from the east such as western Egypt and Libia or does are they indigenous to the whole part west of the Nile? North African Aboriginals? …
Are the Spanish more Iberian, Celtic or Germanic? - History Forum
Nov 13, 2014 · Under the muslim umbrella would come arabs, yemenis, syrians, egyptians, berbers, sub-saharan Africans and folks from almost anywhere in North Africa or the Middle east.
Black Africans in North Africa (12th-16th century) - History Forum
Yes these people descend from the berbers who settled in West Africa and I never denied the presence of black skinned individuals in North Africa what I said was that we shouldn't project the modern …
Battle of Lepanto-Ottoman empire's first major defeat
Jun 28, 2015 · The Ottoman galleys were manned by 13,000 experienced sailors—generally drawn from the maritime nations of the Ottoman Empire, namely Berbers, Greeks, Syrians, and Egyptians—and …
Hannibal Barca of Carthage was (Black) - History Forum
Oct 11, 2014 · i don't think hannibal was a pure-blooded phoenician because weddings between phoenicians and berbers were common even in higher social classes so when hannibal claimed that …
Debate around the ethnicity of Mansa Musa of Mali.
Jul 21, 2023 · Always thought of Berbers as Arabs, with a dark skin, but not black as I understand t he term. Anything I've read about Mansa Musa shows him as a black West African man. I really don't …
Amazigh | History Forum
Nov 26, 2015 · I just read something that was interesting. Is the term Berber actually a slur? I have never heard of that, and it is the term used instead of Amazigh? Has anyone else heard of this?