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Ethnic groups in Morocco

Ethnic groups in Morocco

  • Arabs
    Arabs (Arabic: عرب‎‎, ‘arab) are a panethnicity of peoples whose native language is a variety of Arabic.
  • Sephardi Jews
    Sephardi Jews, also known as Sephardic Jews or simply Sephardim (Hebrew: סְפָרַדִּים, Modern Hebrew: Sfaraddim, Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm; also יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד Y'hudey Spharad, lit. "The Jews of Spain"), are a Jewish ethnic division whose ethnogenesis and emergence as a distinct community of Jews coalesced in the Iberian Peninsula around the start of the 2nd millennium (i.e., about the year 1000).
  • Berber Jews
    Berber Jews are the Jewish communities of the Atlas mountains in Morocco, and previously in Algeria, which historically spoke Berber languages.
  • History of the Jews in Morocco
    (See also: Moroccan Jews) Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community.
  • Bedouin
    (Not to be confused with Bedoon (ethnicity) or Baudouin of Belgium.)("Bedu" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Biduiyeh, Sirjan.) The Bedouin (/ˈbɛdᵿ.ɪn/; Arabic: بَدَوِي badawī) are an Arab semi-nomadic ethnic group, descended from nomads who have historically inhabited the Arabian and Syrian deserts.
  • Sahrawi people
    The Sahrawi people (Arabic: صحراويون‎‎ ṣaḥrāwīyūn; Berber: ⵉⵙⴻⵃⵔⴰⵡⵉⵢⴻⵏ Iseḥrawiyen; Moroccan Arabic: صحراوة Ṣeḥrawa; Spanish: Saharaui) are the people living in the western part of the Sahara desert which includes Western Sahara (claimed by the Polisario and mostly controlled by Morocco), other parts of southern Morocco not claimed by the Polisario, most of Mauritania, and the extreme southwest of Algeria.
  • Jebala people
    The Jebala (Arabic: جبالة‎‎, Moroccan Arabic:Jbala) is a group of Arabian mountain people, which inhabit North-West Morocco.
  • European Moroccans
    European Moroccans are Moroccans whose ancestry lies within the continent of Europe, most notably France and Spain.
  • Shilha people
    The Shilha people or Shluh are a Berber ethnic group inhabiting Morocco.
  • Ghomaras
    The Ghomara are an ethnic group of northern Morocco, living between the rivers Oued Laou and Ouringa, east of Chefchaouen and south of Tetouan, in the Western Rif.
  • Moroccan Jews
    Moroccan Jews (Arabic: اليهود المغاربة‎‎ al-Yehud al-Magharibah, Hebrew: יהודים מרוקאים‎‎ Yehudim Maroka'im) are the Jews who live or lived in the area of North Africa known as Morocco.
  • Tekna
    The Tekna is a semi nomad Sahrawi tribal confederation of Lamta Sanhaja Berber origins.
  • Haratin
    Haratin (also transliterated Haratins, Harratins or Haratine, etc., singular Hartani) are oasis-dwellers in the Sahara, especially in southern Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Western Sahara, who make up a socially and ethnically distinct group of largely settled, non-nomadic workers, with relatively dark complexions, speaking either Berber or Arabic.
  • Romani people in Morocco
    Some reports suggest the existence of Romani people in Morocco.