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Afri (singular,
Afer) was the
Latin name for an ancient people located on the shores of the southern
Mediterranean Sea near the city of
Carthage, nowadays
Tunisia. The first record of their existence was made during the
Punic Wars (264-146 B.C.) between
ancient Rome and Carthage. The name may be connected with
Phoenician `afar,
dust (also found in other
Semitic languages).
The singular
Afer was used as a Roman
cognomen for people from the region of Carthage (see
Afer).
The most common etymology for the continent of
Africa is traced to this group. The Romans referred to the region as
Africa terra (land of the Afri), based on the stem
Afr- with the adjective suffix -
ic- (giving
Africus,
Africa,
Africum in the nominative singular of the three
Latin genders). Following the defeat of Carthage in the
Third Punic War, Rome set up the
province of
Africa. Arabic converted this Latin name into
Ifriqiya.
The name is still extant today as Ifira and Ifri-n-Dellal in Greater Kabylia (Algeria). A
Berber tribe was called Beni-Ifren in the Middle Ages and Ifurace was the name of a Tripolitan people in the 6th century. The name is from the
Berber language ifri "cave". Troglodytism was frequent in northern Africa and still occurs today in southern Tunisia.
Herodotus wrote that the
Garamantes, a North African people, used to live in caves. The Ancient Greeks called an African people who lived in caves troglodytes.
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