Maghreb definition

Maghreb

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WordNet

(1) The region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia

WiktionaryText

From Arabic < (ğáraba, 'to set', 'to go down').

Maghreb

Northwest Africa, the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile. The lands of the Maghreb are generally considered to be the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya. Construed with “the”: the Maghreb.