All over the world you can count more than one hundred peoples. They are all of different numbers, they all have their own special traditions, their own mentality. Many live in their own separate territory, such as, for example, the peoples of Russia or Africa. And what is the name of the country where the Arabs live?
League of Arab States
This people has a long history, which originates dozens of centuries ago. Their ancestors lived in the Middle East and North Africa. Currently, nothing has changed much. Arabs still live on their territory. There is a League of Arab States, which includes not one country where Arabs live, but several located just on this territory. The largest of them:
- Saudi Arabia.
- Egypt.
- Algeria.
- Libya.
- Sudan.
- Morocco.
This organization includes twenty-two states where Arabs live, the total population of which exceeds 425 million people! For comparison: the population of the European Union is approximately 810 million people. Not a big gap, is it? Especially when you consider that a mixed population lives in Europe: different peoples and nationalities. And the Arabs are one people.
Ancient world
Arabs live not only in Africa and the Middle East. More precisely, the first ancestors of this group of peoples (and Arabs are precisely a group of peoples) settled on the Arabian Peninsula.
And the first Arab states began to appear in the second half of the second millennium BC. And even then it was believed that where the Arabs live, in which country it is not so important, the state will be one of the most developed. Before them, Ancient Rome and the new Europe of dark times was still very far away.
Modernity
Now, in the twenty-first century, a huge number of representatives of this people are settled around the world. For example, in South America, about 15 million 100 thousand people live in total. And more specifically:
- in Brazil, 9 million people;
- in Argentina, 4.5 million people;
- in Venezuela - 1.5 million people.
In the aforementioned Europe, where Arabs live, more than six and a half million representatives of this nation. Most of them are in France: almost six million. Even in Asia there are a huge number of ethnic Arabs who are spread throughout the region.
Islam and Arabs
And, in general, this is not surprising. Indeed, at about the beginning of the seventh century AD, a man whom all Muslims would later call the Prophet Muhammad began to preach the religion of Islam. On this basis, the state of the Caliphate was created.
100 years after its founding, it has already spread its borders from the coast of Spain to Southwest Asia. The title, in modern terminology, the nation of this state was Arab. Arabic was the official language, and Islam was the predominant religion.
It was as a result of such political and religious transformations that Arabs appeared in Asia. But what is interesting: it is the Arab nation that makes up the majority of the population of such Asian countries where Arabs live, such as:
- Bahrain.
- Jordan and Iraq.
- Yemen.
- Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
- Syria.
- Lebanon.
- Yemen.
The main religion of the Arabs is Islam. In Syria, Egypt and Libya there are a considerable number of supporters of the Christian religion. But Islam is not a single religion. Its followers are divided into at least two directions: the followers of the Islamic religion of the Sunni and Shiite persuasion.
The culture of this group of peoples is also quite interesting for study. We can say that Arab culture is almost one of the oldest in the world. When the Crusades began to be gathered in Europe, the first thing we went to was where the Arab peoples live. Even then they were one of the developed countries.
But the world does not stand still. Any micro-relocations of small nations and nationalities are constantly happening. In addition, according to many respected scientists, now humanity is experiencing almost another Great Migration of Nations. So, who knows, maybe in a couple of centuries the main place of residence of the Arabs will be not the Middle East and North Africa, as it is now, but Australia, Europe or North America. Who knows, anything can happen.
Berbers
Interestingly, the Berbers are akin to the Arabs. This is a people whose representatives profess mainly the Islamic religion. The approximate number of Berbers, if we take into account the whole world, is approximately 25 million people, most of whom live in Algeria and Morocco: in total, about 20 million people are obtained - 10.7 million in Algeria and 9.2 million in Morocco. This people can be called one of the largest in the territory of North Africa.
In the northern part of Morocco, where Arabs and Berbers live, Amazirgi were founded, in the southern part - Shillu, Algerian Berbers - Kabiles, Tuaregs and Shawia. Tuaregs live in territories of such countries as:
- Niger.
- Burkina Faso.
- Mali
Berbers themselves do not call themselves that. This name was given to them by Europeans when they heard their strange language. You can immediately draw an analogy with the barbarians, who have developed about the same situation.
