Re: Good/Beneficient (was: More Nyenya'a)
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 21, 2001, 20:17 |
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On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, David Peterson wrote:
> In a message dated 10/21/01 6:22:17 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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> << So el-Maghreb is strictly Morocco nowadays? At least in European history
> works, it's frequently used for the entire Morocco-Algeria-Tunisia area. >>
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> I was taught that almaghrab is Morocco, and that Tuunis is Tunisia amd
> tjat Algeria is alzhiir. I've no doubt that you're right, though, because it
> makes sense. Anyone know how people in the Middle East refer to the area vs.
> the country?
I do know that at least historically the Maroc-Algerie-Tunisie refion was
called Maghreb at least by the French, based on a French book I have about
railways in the Maghreb, as well as a history of the Legion Etrangere.
---frank
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