The Mrazig are a previously nomadic people who live in and around the town of
Douz
Douz ( ar, دوز ') is a town in the Kebili Governorate in the south of Tunisia, known as the "gateway to the Sahara." By road it is located southwest of Blidet, southeast of Tozeur, and south of the Tunisian capital of Tunis.
History
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. Numbering around 50,000, they are the descendants of the
Banu Sulaym tribe who left the
Arabian peninsula in the eighth century. They lived first in
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
, then
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...
, and finally arrived and settled in Tunisia in the thirteenth century.
African nomads
Arabs in Tunisia
Ethnic groups in Tunisia
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