Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
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Berbers
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, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
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Berber languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight,, ber, label=Tuareg Tifinagh, ⵜⵎⵣⵗⵜ, ) are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber commun ...
, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
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Berber, Sudan
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, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
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Ady Berber
Ady Berber (4 February 1913 – 3 January 1966) was an Austrian film actor, professional wrestler and café owner. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1936 and 1966. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria.
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(1913–1966), Austrian film actor
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Alejandro Berber
Alejandro Berber Castañón (born August 3, 1987 in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a former professional Mexican footballer who currently plays for Alebrijes de Oaxaca
Alebrijes de Oaxaca Fútbol Club is a Mexican football team based in the city ...
(born 1987), Mexican footballer
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Anita Berber
Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic.
Early life
Born in Leipzig to Felix Berber, First Violinist ...
(1899–1928), German dancer, actress, and writer
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Fatiha Berber
Fatiha Berber (1945–2015) was an Algerian actress for theater, cinema and television, whose real name was Fatiha Blal.
Life
Fatiha Berber was born in the Casbah of Algiers.[Felix Berber
Karl Heinrich Felix Berber (11 March 1871 – 2 November 1930) was a German violinist.
Life
Born in Jena, Berber was the youngest child of music and art-loving parents. He spent the first part of his childhood in Weimar, where the family moved ...]
(1871–1930), German violinist
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Fritz Berber
Friedrich "Fritz" Berber (born 27 November 1898 in Marburg, Germany; died 23 October 1984 in Kreuth, Germany) was a member of the Nazi administration in Germany up until 1943, after which he worked, on secondment, for International Red Cross in Gen ...
(1898–1984), member of the Nazi administration in Germany until 1943
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Kübra Berber
Kübra Berber (born April 14, 1996, in Gölcük, Kocaeli, Turkey) is a Turkish women's football defender currently playing in the First League for Ataşehir Belediyespor with jersey number 6. She is a member of the Turkish national U-19 team s ...
(born 1996), Turkish women's footballer
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Mersad Berber
Mersad Berber (1 January 1940 – 7 October 2012) was a Bosnian painter.
Early life
Berber was born in Bosanski Petrovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana where he graduated with a BA and MA. In 1978, Be ...
(1940–2012), Bosnian painter
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Oğuzhan Berber
Oğuzhan Berber (born 10 April 1992) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Süper Lig club İstanbulspor.
Professional career
Berber is a product of the youth academies of Karşıyaka and Denizlispor, and began his s ...
(born 1992), Turkish footballer
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Philip Berber
Philip Berber is an Irish-born American technology entrepreneur, now engaged in philanthropy, international aid, social entrepreneurship and impact investing. He sold CyBerCorp, his online brokerage for day traders, to Charles Schwab for $488m ...
(born 1958), Irish American entrepreneur and philanthropist
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Yolande Berbers
Yolande Berbers is a Belgian computer scientist whose interests include software engineering, middleware, distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, model-driven architecture, and context awareness. She is a professor of computer science at KU L ...
, Belgian computer scientist
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Other uses
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Berber carpet
Berber carpets are carpets hand-woven by the Berber people in North Africa and the Sahara. The carpets come in traditional and modern designs, which are distinguished by different knotting patterns, dyes and fabric textures.
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, a type of carpet hand-woven by the Berber autochthones in North Africa and the Sahara
* Berber the Moor, a fictional character in ''
The Bastard Executioner
''The Bastard Executioner'' is an American historical fiction drama television series, created by Kurt Sutter, that aired on FX from September 15, 2015 to November 17, 2015. On November 18, 2015, Sutter announced that FX had cancelled the series ...
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See also
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Barbaria (East Africa)
Barbaria was the name used by the ancient Greeks for littoral northeast Africa. The corresponding Arabic term, ''bilad al-Barbar'' (land of the Barbar), was used in the Middle Ages.Michael Peppard, "A Letter Concerning Boats in Berenike and Tra ...
or Bilad-al-Barbar, the ancient and medieval name of Somalia
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Berbera
Berbera (; so, Barbara, ar, بربرة) is the capital of the Sahil region of Somaliland and is the main sea port of the country. Berbera is a coastal city and was the former capital of the British Somaliland protectorate before Hargeisa. It ...
, a port city in Somalia
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Berbere
Berbere ( Oromo: ''Barbaree'', am, በርበሬ ''bärbäre'', ti, በርበረ ''bärbärä'') is a spice mixture whose constituent elements usually include chili peppers, coriander, garlic, ginger, Ethiopian holy basil (besobela) seeds, ''kora ...
, a spice mixture from Ethiopia
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