The Berber world

{{comments_count}} When a new Amazigh year begins at Yennayer, its year number is 950 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar: 2026 thus becomes 2976. This figure might suggest that Amazigh people have been counting the years in this way for almost three millennia. That is not the case. North Africa’s agricultural calendar is ancient, but the present-day numbering of Amazigh years is a twentieth-century creation. An agricultural calendar far older than its year numbering For centuries, rural populations across the …