In medieval history, Ifriqiya or Ifriqiyah (Arabic: إفريقية) was the area comprising the coastal regions of what are today western Libya, Tunisia, and eastern Algeria. This area included what had been the Roman province of Africa. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after AD 120. ... Categories: Historical stubs | Ancient Roman provinces ...

Ifriqiya was bounded on the south by the semi-arid areas and salt marshes called el-Djerid. At various times, the rulers of this area also conquered Sicily and parts of mainland Italy, and the western boundary was in continual flux but usually went as far as Bejaia. Its capital was Qayrawan (Kairouan) in central Tunisia. el-Djerid or al-Jarid (Arabic الجريد, meaning palm leaf) is the medieval name for the semidesert region comprising southern Tunisia and adjacent parts of Algeria and Libya, including several chotts or salt lakes (notably Chott el Djerid in Algeria). ... Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... Bejaïa is a port in Béjaïa province, Algeria. ... Kairouan (Kairwan, Al Qayrawan) is a city in Tunisia, about 160 kilometres south of Tunis. ...

In modern Arabic, the term simply means "Africa". It derives from the Latin term Africa of uncertain (either Berber, Punic, or Greek) origin. A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... The Berber languages (or Tamazight) are a group of closely related languages mainly spoken in Morocco and Algeria. ... Punic (from Latin pūnicus) was a Latin version of the term Phoenician. (After the Punic Wars, Romans used this term as an adjective meaning treacherous.) In archaeological and linguistic usage, it refers to the Greco-Roman era culture and dialect of Carthage and its empire as distinct from their...

See also

• Aghlabid
• Zirid
• Hafsid
• Maghreb
• Afariqa