What are the ethnic groups of Algeria?

Algeria - Ethnic groups
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More than four-fifths of the country is ethnically Arab, though most Algerians are descendents of ancient Amazigh groups who mixed with various invading peoples from the Arab Middle East, southern Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. Arab invasions in the 8th and 11th centuries brought only limited numbers of new people to the region but resulted in the extensive Arabization and Islamization of the indigenous Amazigh population. Some one-fifth of the Algerians now consider themselves Amazigh, of whom the Kabyle Imazighen (plural of Amazigh), occupying the mountainous area east of Algiers, form the largest group. Other Amazigh groups are the Shawia (Chaou茂a), who live primarily in the Aur猫s Mountains; the M'zabites, a sedentary group descended from the 9th-century Ibadi followers of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Rustam, who inhabit the northern edge of the desert; and the Tuareg nomads of the Saharan Ahaggar region. Nearly all the European settlers鈥攎ainly French, Italian, and Maltese nationals, who formed a sizable minority in the colonial period鈥攈ave left the country. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-465...

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