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Bookmark or Share- Maghreb | History, Location, Languages, Map, & Facts | BritannicaMaghreb, region of North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The Africa Minor of the ancients, it at one time included Moorish Spain and now comprises essentially the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plain of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Learn more about the Maghreb in this article.
- Maghreb - WikipediaThe Maghreb is usually defined as encompassing much of the northern part of Africa, including a large portion of the Sahara Desert, but excluding Egypt and the Sudan, which are considered to be located in the Mashriq — the eastern part of the Arab world.
- Maghreb - Encyclopedia of World GeographyThe Maghreb (maghrib) is Arabic for “the west.” The original Arabic name for the northwestern end of the African continent was Maghreb-el-Aqsa, “the land farthest west,” or “the place where the sun sets.”
- Maghreb, Africa - WorldAtlasThe region known as the Maghreb is an area in northwest Africa. The word “Maghreb” literally means “west” in the Arabic language. This name makes sense since it lies to the west of the Arabian Peninsula, which is the original homeland of the Arabs.
- Maghreb - Encyclopedia.comMaghreb or Magrib (both: mä´grĬb) [Arab.,=the West], Arabic term for NW Africa. It is generally applied to all of Morocco [1], Algeria [2], and Tunisia [3] but actually pertains only to the area of the three countries between the high ranges of the Atlas Mts. and the Mediterranean Sea [4].
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