Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Maghreb. They are primarily connected by their use of Berber languages, which are part of the Afroasiatic language family.

thumb|Depiction of Muslim army in Iberia, from Cantigas de Santa Maria|The Cantigas de Santa Maria The term Moor is an exonym used in European languages to designate primarily the Muslim populations of North Africa (the Maghreb) and the Iberian Peninsula (particularly al-Andalus) during the Middle Ages.

Kerkouane or Kerkuane (, Karkwān) is the site of an ancient Punic city in north-eastern Tunisia, near Cape Bon. Kerkouane was one of the most important Punic cities, with Carthage, Hadrumetum (modern Sousse), and Utica. This Phoenician city was probably abandoned during the First Punic War ( BC) and was not rebuilt by the Romans. It had existed for almost 400 years.

Amazigh language from Morocco

French encyclopedia about the Berbers

historical period (6th-8th c.)

The suffix -tania or -etania (English demonym "-tanian", "-tanians") denotes a territory or region in the Iberian Peninsula. Its historical origin is in the pre-Roman Iberia. Its etymological origin is discussed by linguists. Spanish Jesuit philologist Hervás y Panduro proposed their link to the Celtic languages, in which the root *tan or *taín means department or region. "In Irish, tan (genitive, tain) expresses the idea of country, territory."