in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Riffian or Rifian may refer to: Riffians, a Berber people Rifian language, their language Riff languages, their language...
displacement of the native people. As they received no share of the profits, the Rifians soon began to oppose the mining in their territory. When Alfonso XIII ascended...
July 1921 at Annual, in northeastern Morocco, between the Spanish Army and Rifian Berbers during the Rif War. The Spanish suffered a major military defeat...
Rivera became a strong supporter of a decisive offensive to defeat the Rifian leader and restore Spanish authority in the Protectorate. In April 1925...
to understand for a speaker of Rifian. Some typical features that distinguish the Ghomara variety of Berber from Rifian Berber are the use of the preposition...
Rif region in northern Morocco. It is spoken natively by some 1,271,000 Rifians primarily in the Rif provinces of Al Hoceima, Nador and Driouch. In the...
The Rifian barbel (Luciobarbus rifensis) is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to northern Morocco found from the Loukkos River basin on the western Atlantic...
diverse ethnic groups and Berber languages, such as Kabyles, Chaouis and Rifians. Historically, Berbers across the region did not see themselves as a single...
was violently crushed by Moroccan forces, leading to the death of 3000 Rifians. The region was subsequently declared a military zone. The brutal repression...
between 1921 and 1926. It was created in September 1921, when a coalition of Rifians led by Abd el-Krim revolted in the Rif War against the Spanish protectorate...
Greco-Roman geography, the Riphean Mountains (also Riphaean; /rɪˈfeɪən/, or /rɪˈfiən/; Ancient Greek: Ῥιπαῖα ὄρη; Latin: Rhipaei or Riphaei montes) were a supposed...
Spain and the Rifian Corridor across northern Morocco. The Betic closed about 6 mya, causing the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC); the Rifian or possibly...
Spain and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and is the homeland of the Rifians and the Jebala people. This mountainous and fertile area is bordered by...
Army in 1919 Alleged British use in Mesopotamia in 1920 Spain against the Rifian resistance in Morocco during the Rif War of 1921–27 (see also: Spanish use...
military directorate. In December 1925, after the Alhucemas landing ended Rifian anti-colonial resistance, he installed a civil directory. From 1927 a policy...
them under the designation Pansarvärnsgevär m/21. During the Rif War, the Rifian rebels obtained some smuggled Mauser 1918s to counter the Spanish Renault...
is the reclam de xeremies. Basque Country has the alboka. The zamar, a Rifian traditional musical instrument Alboka reclam de xeremies Double clarinet...
participated in the reconquest of the surroundings of Melilla, occupied by rebel Rifian forces after the Battle of Annual. He was promoted to brigadier general...
dislodge the Rifians from the works near Cabrerizas and Rostro Gordo Margallo rode out on October 28 at the head of a column of 2,000 men. The Rifians in the...
severed from the Atlantic Ocean and partly dried up when the Guadalhorce and Rifian corridors that had previously connected the Mediterranean to the Atlantic...
different culture compared to the Rifians. The Jebala people use oxen yoked by their horns for ploughing, opposed to the Rifians' use of cows yoked by their...
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