Tamazghaⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵖⴰ

Longitudinal view

Across the centuries.

The persons and events of the archive plotted as overlapping lifespans and durations on a shared piecewise-linear time axis. Read horizontally to follow a single life or event; read vertically to see who was alive together, what they walked through.

Persons — 46 lifespans
Events — 14 durations
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Massinissa238 BCE – 148 BCEJugurtha160 BCE – 104 BCEJuba I85 BCE – 46 BCEJuba II48 BCE – 23al-Kahina7 – 703Lalla Aziza of Seksawa14 – 1352Augustine of Hippo354 – 430Kusayla630 – 688Tariq ibn Ziyad670 – 720Idris I745 – 791Fatima al-Fihri800 – 880Yusuf ibn Tashfin1009 – 1106Ibn Tumart1080 – 1130Abd al-Mu'min1094 – 1163Ibn Tufayl1105 – 1185Yaqub al-Mansur1160 – 1199Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili1196 – 1258Abu Zakariya Yahya I1203 – 1249Ibn Khaldun1332 – 1406Ahmad al-Mansur1549 – 1603Moulay Ismail1645 – 1727Lalla Fatma N'Soumer1830 – 1863Charles de Foucauld1858 – 1916Moussa ag Amastan1867 – 1920Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi1882 – 1963Fadhma Aith Mansour Amrouche1882 – 1967Assou Ou Basslam1890 – 1960Tahar Haddad1899 – 1935Taos Amrouche1913 – 1976Mostefa Ben Boulaïd1917 – 1956Mouloud Mammeri1917 – 1989Slimane Azem1918 – 1983Cherifa1926 – 2014Kateb Yacine1929 – 1989Hassiba Ben Bouali1938 – 1957Fathi Ben Khalifa1948 – presentNouara1948 – presentDjura1949 – presentIdir1949 – 2020Mano Dayak1949 – 1995Tassadit Yacine1949 – presentLounis Aït Menguellet1950 – presentFerhat Mehenni1951 – presentLounès Matoub1956 – 1998Khalida Toumi1958 – presentIbrahim Ag Alhabib1960 – presentMassinissa unifies Numidia202 BCE – 148 BCEThe Donatist schism in Roman north Africa311 – 411Tariq ibn Ziyad crosses the Strait into Iberia711 – 718Idrisid foundation of Fez789 – 974Kutama Berbers found the Fatimid caliphate909 – 969Almoravid foundation of Marrakesh1070 – 1147Ibn Tumart founds the Almohad movement at Tinmel1121 – 1269Marinid takeover of Fez and Morocco1248 – 1465Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands1402 – 1496Battle of Tondibi and Saadian conquest of Songhay1591 – 1612French conquest of Algiers1830 – 1903Republic of the Rif and the Battle of Annual1921 – 1926Algerian War of Independence begins in the Aurès1954 – 1962Founding of the Académie Berbère in Paris1966 – 1978
Persons coloured by primary role; events coloured by period. Triangles at the right end mark living persons. Click any bar to open the corresponding entry.

Person roles

  • ruler
  • warrior
  • religious
  • scholar
  • writer
  • musician
  • activist
  • explorer
  • artist
  • political

Event periods

  • antique
  • medieval
  • ottoman
  • colonial
  • modern
  • contemporary