Maghreb is like Korea
Fact: Despite having made up three countries for the majority of its history, Maghreb is actually ONE nation. Every Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian views xer country as the legitimate dynasty and the other two as illegal usurpers. A Tunisian will see ibn Tashfin from southern Morocco as a national hero just like a Morocan will see ibn Battuta from Tunis as a national hero. Unlike Scandinavia, where the three nations always saw each other as different even if Denmark occupied Norway for a significant period, the Maghrebines see each other like the two Koreas do. Morocco's official name is just "the Maghreb". The real names of the regions, not the colonial Algeria/Tunisia/Maroc, are "al-Maghreb al-Aqsa/Awsat/Adna", meaning furthest/central/nearest, just like north/south Korea are the informal names of the two rival dynasties of the Korean peninsula.
Quote from ibn Khaldun, 14th century historian:
>The Maghreb today has become like a single body with three heads, each pulling in a different direction. If one head moves, the others resist, and the body remains paralyzed.
Maghreb has been truly unified a grand total of two times; by the Fatimids (shi'ite Kabylians) in the early 10th century and the Almochads (chud Salafi Masmoudas) in the late 12th-early 13th century.
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