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Ethnic group
Chaoui people (Shawiya)
Map showing Chaoui areas in the east
Total population
2,870,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Aurès, Algeria
Languages
Shawiya
Religion
Sunni Islam
The Chaoui people or Shawia (Algerian Arabic: الشاوية, Tachawit: Išawiyen) are a Berber ethnic group native to the Aurès region in northeastern Algeria which spans Batna and Khenchla, Oum El Bouaghi provinces located in and surrounded by the Aurès Mountains.
They also live in the Algerian provinces of Tébessa, Constantine, Setif and other parts of Eastern Algeria coextensive with the ancient Massylii of Numidia, as well as northwest Tunisia. They call themselves Išawiyen/Icawiyen (pronounced [iʃawijən]) and speak the Shawiya language. They are the second largest Tell Atlas Amazigh-speaking ethnicity, alongside the Kabyles and Chenouas.
^"Centre de Recherche Berbère - Chaouia". www.centrederechercheberbere.fr.
The Chaouipeople or Shawia (Algerian Arabic: الشاوية, Tachawit: Išawiyen) are a Berber ethnic group native to the Aurès region in northeastern Algeria...
to the influence of French conventions on Algeria. Other spellings are "Chaoui", "Shawia", "Tachawit", "Thachawith", "Tachaouith" and "Thchèwith". In Shawiya...
example, the Kabyles use the term "Leqbayel" to refer to their own people, while the Chaouis identified themselves as "Ishawiyen" instead of Berber/Amazigh...
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adopted Kateb Yacine as a pen name. He was born into a scholarly maraboutic Chaoui Berber family from the modern Sedrata, in wilaya of Souk Ahras (in the Aurès...
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Mountains, 1200 m above sea level. The city is mainly populated by Berber Chaouis. Located in the Aurès Mountains (part of the Atlas Mountains), at 1,200...
such as the right of recourse and the right to a defending counsel for the people subjected to a measure of internment without trial taken in application...
Raymond with the accompanying fame and respect. Cheikh Raymond's father was a Chaoui Jew from Batna, and his mother a French citizen. He was abandoned by his...
security measure, Ptolemy of Mauretania relocated some of the Maghrawa people to the Chlef region. The Maghrawa occupied the region between the cities...
Amazigh Kateb (born September 16, 1972) is an Algerian singer and musician. He emigrated to France in Grenoble in 1988, he was a member of the group Gnawa...
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Fatima Zohra and Boussaha Yahia, a welder by profession, both of Algerian, Chaoui descent. His parents emigrated to Alsace from the village of Sedrata in...
accused him of "being responsible for the assassination of thousands of people", blaming him and other generals for starting the war and committing massacres...
Tahar Ouettar (Arabic: الطاهر وطار; 1936 – August 12, 2010) was an Algerian writer. Ouettar was called "one of the North African nation’s most prolific...
Touria Chaoui (Berber: ⵜⵓⵔⵉⴰ ⵛⴰⵡⵉ, Arabic: ثريا الشاوي; December 14, 1936, Fez, Morocco–March 1, 1956) was the first Moroccan pilot. Chaoui was born on...
1111-0333). Moumouh Icheboudène, « Awal d Wuzzal : Ben Zelmat, le Robin des bois Chaoui », Dépêche de Kabylie, 17 octobre 2009 Jean Dejeux, Revue de l'Occident...
destitute family in Constantine, Algeria, Abdelhamid Mehri joined the Algerian People's Party (PPA) at an early age. He studied in Tunisia, and developed contacts...
dialect), during the French presence in Algeria. Ben Sdira's family is of Chaoui origin from Biskra. Between 1860 and 1863, Belkassem obtained a scholarship...
Date Use Description 1997–present Flag of the Amazigh people ?–present Flag of the Chaouipeople A yellow field with a black letter "z" (ⵣ in Tifinagh)...
13 January 1940 – 23 December 2019) was a senior leader in the Algerian People's National Army. In 2004, he was appointed by then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...
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