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Old 12th February 2008, 00:17
abdulkarem abdulkarem is offline
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strabo in his geography records
Ephorus says the Tartessians(andalucians) report that Ethiopians overran Libya as far as Dyris,80 and that some of them stayed in(atlas mountains) Dyris, while others occupied a great part of the sea-board;

IS anybody aware of the name berber was not only attributed to north african inhabitants. the kanuri are called berbere and the somali. could this be the reason why said ibn musayyib and uthman al-jahiz put the berbers with the sudaan ref.:al-mufakhira as-sudaaan 'ala bidhaan and mustadrik al-hakim kitaab al-fitan wa malahim
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