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ZENAGA (SANHAJA, SENAJER)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZENAGA (SANHAJA, SENAJER)  , a
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Berber tribe of
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southern
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Morocco who gave their name to
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Senegal, once their tribal home . They formed one of the tribes which, uniting under the leadership of Yusef
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bin Tashfin, crossed the
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Sahara and gave a dynasty to Morocco and Spain, namely, that of the Almoravides (q.v.) . The Zeirid dynasty which supplanted the Fatimites in the Maghrib and founded the city of Algiers was also of Zenaga origin . The Zenaga dialect of Berber is spoken in southern Morocco and on the banks of the
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lower Senegal, largely by the negro population .

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