Zouaoua
Sign in to saveIgawawen or Gawawa, mostly known as Zwawa (in Kabyle: Igawawen, in Arabic: زواوة, and in Latin: Jubaleni) were a group of Kabyle tribes inhabiting the Djurdjura mountains, Greater Kabylia, in Algeria. The Zouaoua are a branch of the Kutama tribe of the Baranis Berbers.
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- Etymology
- Origins
- History
- High Middle Ages
- Almohad and Hafsid periods
- Ottoman-Algerine period
- Under the Kingdom of Kuku
- After the fall of Kuku
- Serving under the Deylik of Algiers
- Conflicts with the Deylik of Algiers
- Tribes
- Zwawa proper
- Sources
Igawawen or Gawawa, mostly known as Zwawa (in Kabyle: Igawawen, in Arabic: زواوة, and in Latin: Jubaleni) were a group of Kabyle tribes inhabiting the Djurdjura mountains, Greater Kabylia, in Algeria. The Zouaoua are a branch of the Kutama tribe of the Baranis Berbers.
In the most restricted sense, the Igawawen were a confederation (kabyle: taqbilt, derived from arabic "قبيلة" meaning tribe) of 8 tribes split into two groups: Ait Betrun: Ait Yenni, At Wasif, Ait Budrar, Ait Bu Akkash. Ait Mengellet: Ait Mengellet proper, Ait Aqbil, Ait Attaf, Ait Bu Yusef.