Amazigh

Amazigh communities stretch from the Atlas and Kabylia to the Tuareg of the Sahara. The Guanches of the Canary Islands were related to them. Ancient Amazigh peoples founded the kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania.

After the Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries the region slowly Arabized, yet the Amazigh kept their languages, and the Almoravids and Almohads ruled the Maghreb and al-Andalus from the eleventh century. In 1337 the Marinids, Zayyanids and Hafsids held the Maghreb, and Castile conquered the Guanches in the fifteenth century.