1888 kabyle family travelling Iqvayliyen Berber ethnic group native Kabylie Kabylia north Algeria,
The Kabyle people are a Berber ethnic group native to Kabylie (or Kabylia) in the north of Algeria, one hundred miles east of Algiers. They represent the largest Berber-speaking population of Algeria and the second largest in Africa. Emigration, influenced by factors such as the French conquest of Algeria, deportation, and latterly industrial decline and unemployment, resulted in Kabyle people being found throughout the world. Large populations of Kabyle people settled in France and, to a lesser extent, Canada. Kabyles speak the Kabyle language and, since the Berber Spring of 1980, have been at the forefront of the fight for the official recognition of Berber languages in Algeria. The Kabyle were relatively independent of outside control during the Ottoman Control in Parts of North Africa era, and lived primarily in three different kingdoms: the Kingdom of Kuku, the Kingdom of Ait Abbas, and the principality of Aït Jubar The area was gradually taken over by the French beginning in 1857, despite vigorous resistance by the population led by leaders such as Lalla Fatma n Soumer, continuing as late as Mokrani's rebellion in 1871. French officials confiscated much land from the more recalcitrant tribes and granted it to colonists, known as pieds-noirs. The French carried out many arrests and deportations of resisters, mainly to New Caledonia Due to French colonization, many Kabyle emigrated into other areas inside and outside Algeria.
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