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Demographics Of Morocco And Moroccan Population
Most Moroccans are Sunni Muslims of Berber, Arab or mixed Arab-Berber stock. Morocco was inhabited by
Berbers since at least 5000 years ago.
The Arabs conquered the territory that would become Morocco in the 7th and 11th
centuries, at the time under the rule of various late Byzantine Roman princips
and indigenous Beber and Romano-Berber principalities, laying the foundation for
the emergence of an Arab-Berber culture. A portion of the population is
identified as Haratin and Gnaoua, black or highly mixed "race"
Moroccans. Morocco's Jewish minority has
decreased significantly and numbers about 7,000.
Most of the 100,000 foreign residents are French or Spanish, largely
professionals working for European multinationals, recent studies make clear no significant genetic differences exist between Arabic and
non-Arabic speaking populations, highlighting that in common with most of the
Arab World.
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Arabization was
mainly via acculturation of indigenous populations over time, however,
and according to the European Journal of Human
Genetics, North-Western Africans
were genetically closer to Iberians
and to other Europeans than to Sub-Saharan
Africans.
Motto Of Morocco
الله، الوطن، الملك (Arabic)
"Allāh, al Waţan, al
Malik" (transliteration)
"God,
Nation, King"
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