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**Buildityrit** · 03-07-2011, 08:35 PM

Africa's various historical meanings:

Afar: "Dust" (Phoenician)
Ifri or Ifran: "Cave" (From the Banu Ifran Berber Tribe of Yafran)
Aprica: "Sunny" (Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville)
Aphrike: "Land Free of Cold and horror" (Greek)
Af-rui-ka: "To turn toward the opening of KA"/the "Birthplace" (Egyptian)

Africa (as Ifriquiya) comes from the Latin Africa name given to the part of territory around Cartago inhabited by berber celebrity and among them Ifren (that is to say cavemen), afterward the acceptance of the word evolved to extend in North Africa then in whole continent.

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Buildityrit Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 397 Senior Member	Africa's various historical meanings: Afar: "Dust" (Phoenician) Ifri or Ifran: "Cave" (From the Banu Ifran Berber Tribe of Yafran) Aprica: "Sunny" (Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville) Aphrike: "Land Free of Cold and horror" (Greek) Af-rui-ka: "To turn toward the opening of KA"/the "Birthplace" (Egyptian) Africa (as Ifriquiya) comes from the Latin Africa name given to the part of territory around Cartago inhabited by berber celebrity and among them Ifren (that is to say cavemen), afterward the acceptance of the word evolved to extend in North Africa then in whole continent.
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