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Brian H. Warmington
Former Reader in Ancient History, University of Bristol, England. Author of The Roman North African Provinces and others.
Brian H. Warmington,
Michael Brett
Senior lecturer in the history of North Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Author of The Moors: Islam in the West.
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North Africa, region of Africa comprising the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The geographic entity North Africa has no single accepted definition. It has been regarded by some as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the east, though this designation is more commonly referred to as northern Africa. Others have limited it to the countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, a region known by the French during colonial times as Afrique du Nord and by the Arabs as the Maghrib (“West”). The most commonly ...(100 of 23172 words)

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