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The Petite Kabylie or Petite Kabylia (French: La Kabylie; Arabic: al-Qabā'il, القبائل which translates the tribes) is a mountainous region of Northern Algeria.[1] The Kabyle people themselves know it as Tamurt Idurar (The Mountain Land) or Tamurt n Leqvayel (Land of the Kabyles). The Petite Kabylie along with the Grand Kabylie form part of the Atlas range and borders the Mediterranean. The entire Kabylie spreads over several administrative divisions (wilayas) of Algeria - all of Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia (Bgayet), most of Bouira (Tubiret), Bordj Bou Arreridj and parts of the wilayas of M'Sila (Tamsilt), Jijel, Boumerdes, and Setif. While a French colony, the entirety of the Kabylie was divided into two départements, the Greater (Haute Kabylie) and the Lesser (Basse Kabylie).
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Ecology
Some of the Petite Kabylie is forested with Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests. This locale offers one of the few remaining disjunctive habitats for the endangered Barbary Macaque, Macaca sylvanus, a primate species which prehistorically held a much wider range.[2]
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References
- C. Michael Hogan (2008) Barbary Macaque: Macaca sylvanus, Globaltwitcher.com, ed. N. Strõmberg
- Protected Areas and World Heritage Programme (1988) Algeria
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