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SHILLUH, or SHLUH (" vagabonds ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHILLUH, or SHLUH (" vagabonds ")  , the name given by the Arabized Moors to the
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Berber peoples of
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southern
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Morocco . They occupy chiefly the province of
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Sus . The name is said to be a corruption of dshluh (pl. ishldh), a camel-hair
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tent . They are of
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fine physique, strong and wiry, and true
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Berbers in features and fairness . They are as a
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rule shorter than the Berbers of Algeria (see BERBERS and MOROCCO) .

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