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[Dom]

Originally Posted by Emanuel

Iain, a quick question to you and the rest of the forum: I've seen a number of dealers and websites note "the Kabyle people of Algeria and part of Morocco."
Could anyone point to where this (misunderstanding I think) first popped up?

Hi Emanuel
sorry to have completely over pass that important question,
I noticed several times, here or there, the confusion about the BerberS
(they are several) population in "Great Maghreb"
we are not facing different tribes, but really different population groups,
who have in comnun, the language and alphabet (tamazigh), and
the fact to have been landowner for the country before the Arabic invasions
but, each group have singularities very special, i.e. ;

- Kabyles have a "flissa" but Tuaregs have a "Katouba"
- Kabyles are sedentary mountain-people, and Tuaregs are nomades from deep Sahara,
more than 2000 km between them ...
- Mozabites, as far I know, never have a specific weapons, they are "traders",
if they are trading almost everything, as principle, they are against the weapons for themselves ...

I may continue for long to list the differences between each group,
to give you an opportunity of clarify this imbroglio,
I extracted from "wikipedia" 2 documents, one it's in English, 2nd in French, so sorry
hoping thereby, it will start to be more clearer for you all,
I spent 6 years in these parts, and this subject become familiar to me,
at the beggining has been ... an ink-pot ... for me also



à +

Dom

ps/ I discovered this interesting subject, because I was ready to present my last input ... a "long flissa"