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| Photograph by Alexandra Boulat |
A young Berber bride is adorned for pre-wedding festivities in the High Atlas mountains. Numbering some 25 million in North Africa and concentrated today in Morocco and Algeria, the Berbers (or Amazigh, as some prefer to be called) are an ethnically distinct tribal people who inhabited this area thousands of years before the Arab conquest brought Islam here in the seventh century A.D.
Text & Photo > National Geographic
