Libyans

The following were and are known as Libyans :

North African peoples of the Berber indigenous people in the area of today's Libya, also called Libu-Berbers , the term includes all eastern Berber tribes.
- Some tribes appear in ancient accounts as neighbors of both the Carthaginians and the Egyptians; B. the Garamanten , whose descendants are said to be the Tuareg living in the Sahara today . Further tribes mentioned by Herodotus were the Nasamonen , Gindanen , Lotophages , Machlyer, Maxyer, Maker - all nomadic pastoral peoples.
- Just as in the broader sense Libya was used to designate all of North Africa with the exception of Egypt, so in antiquity the Romans and Byzantines also included Moorish and Numidian Auseer, Gerawa, Getulers, Massasylians, Massylians in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia among the Libyans . Later, the Byzantines and Arabs also included the Hawwara, Kutuma, Zenata, Luwata, Matjara, Matmata, Nefzawa, Mazata, Senhaja and Wartajdschuma tribes among the Libu Berbers. Luwata (or Lawāta) is a Berber word for "Libyan".
various ethnic groups mentioned in ancient Egyptian texts such as Tjehenu , Libu and Meschwesch
the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt founded by the Libyans invading the Nile
today's Libyan Berbers in the Ghadames, Audschila and Siwas regions
the citizen or the titular of the Since 1951 independent Libya , mostly Arabs or Arabized Berbers Libu Tripolitania , the Fezzans and Cyrenaica (including Kufra )

literature

Antony Leahy: Libyans. In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 445-47.