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In Archaic Greece, βάρβαροι (barbaroi) 'barbarians' was an onomatopoeic word to describe languages perceived as defective, as well as their speakers; bar-bar was an imitation of these languages.
This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these ...
The name Numidia was first applied by Polybius and other historians during the third century BC to indicate the territory west of Carthage, including the entire north of Algeria as far as the river Mulucha , about 160 kilometres (100 mi) west of Oran. The Numidians were conceived of as two great groups: the Massylii in eastern Numidia, and the ...
Afro-Arabs, African Arabs, or Black Arabs are Arabs who have predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry. These include primarily minority groups in the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Western Sáhara, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. The term ...
During the Arab Revolt, between 1936 and 1939, when Palestinians sought to end British occupation and establish their own independent country, Palestinians across social classes and religions wore ...
While some black Saudis descend from slaves brought through the Arab slave trade, [3] the majority descend from Muslim pilgrims, primarily from West Africa, who settled in the cities of Mecca and Jeddah. [4] The term "takarnah", meaning people of takrur, is sometimes used to refer to Hejazis of West African descent, [5] though their origins are ...
Maskwa Creek near Wetaskiwin (Cree for 'black bear') Maskwacis (formerly known as Hobbema) collection of several First Nations name translates as 'bear hills'. Matchayaw Lake Cree for bad spirit. Palliser translated the name as Little Manitoo in 1865. [25] Medicine Hat: Translation of the Blackfoot word saamis, meaning "headdress of a medicine ...
In 1923, journalist Zinaida Richter visited a Black village near Sukhumi and reported on her expedition in the Moscow newspaper Izvestia. Foreign periodicals also covered the subject in 1925 and 1931, when anthropologist B. Adler publicized his research in The New York Times , in which he described small Black settlements whose inhabitants were ...