What is another word for Maghreb?

Pronunciation: [mˈaɡɹɛb] (IPA)

Maghreb is a region found in North Africa. It covers an area that stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean and is bordered by the Sahara Desert in the south. The region is also known by other names such as Northwest Africa, the Arab West, and the Barbary Coast. These names highlight different aspects of the region's history and geography. For example, Barbary Coast emphasizes the coastal areas of the region that were notorious for piracy in the past. Northwest Africa focuses on its location relative to the rest of the continent, while the Arab West highlights the cultural and linguistic aspects of the region.

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  • Equivalence

    • Proper noun, singular
      maghrib.
  • Reverse Entailment

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Usage examples for Maghreb

Were they connected with the race which had planted its dolmens over the plains of the Maghreb?
"History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12)"
G. Maspero
The prayer of the Maghreb is an exception, which they are all enjoined to utter together.
"Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah"
Sir Richard Francis Burton

Famous quotes with Maghreb

  • The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.
    Otto Schily
  • The area spreading out from Scandinavia and England towards Maghreb and the Nile, from Ireland and Portugal towards Estonia and Iraq, makes up - even with certain internal peculiarities and divisione - the most unitarian system. I mean from the point of view of its breadth, its rich exchanhes, its sophisticated cultures and religions, its advanced social systems, its cohabitation of so many races and cistoms (p.19).
    Nico Perrone

Related words: the Maghreb, North Africa, the Arab Maghreb Union, Maghreb states, Maghreb region, Maghreb countries, North African countries

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