berbers

The Marinids were the last Berber dynasty to have a foothold in the Iberian Peninsula, a foothold that was lost after their defeat at the Battle of the Río Salado in 1340. They also unified the Maghreb under their rule, but said unification was short-lived. How successful could they be with a...

In the otl had Caecilius delayed the conquest of North Africa by winning a victory against the Arabs in 682, the Arabs in 688 came back and won against him in Mamma thus destroying the most powerful Berber kingdom however the Arabs could not push further as their leader Zuhayr ibn Qays would die...

The vandal kingdom is a rather intriguing part of history to me. An Arian Christian state in north Africa, centered around Rome's old enemy city of Carthage, it met its end due to a loss to then-Christian Berbers that prompted a revolt against religious freedom being given to Trinitarians and...

The Berber Revolt was a general rebellion of Berbers in the area of the Maghreb, Ifriqiya, and Al-Andalus around 739-743, during the reign of caliph Hisham. The ostensible cause was the cruelty and greed of one governor, Ubayd Allah ibn Habib, and his deputies, who set about with zeal to extract...

I was looking to develop an alternate Indo-European culture for a AH/conlang project. While I was looking at places where it would make sense that a new group of IE people settle, North-Western Africa caught my eye. As I understand there is little to no evidence of IE people crossing the Strait...

Back in 1987 Kingdom of Morocco applied to join the European Community (precursor to the modern E.U.), becoming the 1st Maghreb nation to do so. After much deliberation, Brussels agreed that Morocco meets the criteria of joining the Community due to historic ties and mutual influence Morocco had...

So I have begun working on planning a world with a POD in 430. During the Siege of Hippo, St. Augustine recovers from his sickness and doesn't die. Thus, when the Vandals capture the city, he is still alive. Due to Vandal religious policies, Augustine is an open critic resulting in his...

When and how can we insert a strong Berber cultural, political, and religious component into Al-Andalus, after its conquest by Islamic forces? Perhaps through a more successful spread of the Berber Revolt of the 740's into Iberia? What would be the effects of a less Arab, more Berber Al-Andalus...

I'm working on a TL where Gennadius is poisoned in 577 after attacking Garmul. Garmul seeing that he picked the wrong enemy, hastily signs peace with Tiberius allowing the Mauro-Roman Kingdom to survive. He and his successors would remain peaceful until the 610s when they overrun Byzantine...

For a timeline I've been contemplating to write about Caligula dying in that conspiracy against him in 39 and an interesting butterfly that would result would be the survival of Ptolemy of Mauretania, the son of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene. So assuming he doesn't piss off Rome (unlikely...

So, to be clear: This is a situation where both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires collapse to outside pressures, but the Romano-Berbers somehow manage to both claim and maintain an imperial claim ala the Byzantines or Franks. Obviously centered on North Africa, but possibly also extending...