Under the Roman Republic and Empire, a region of Africa north of the Sahara was known as Numidia, and at various points, its borders roughly corresponded to those of western Tunisia and eastern Algeria today. Tribes and clans made up its earliest inhabitants. Physically identical to the other native people of early North Africa, they were frequently referred to as Berbers by the end of the Roman Empire. The Carthaginians began colonizing coastal...
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