The Bavares (also Babares or Baveres) were a

Berber Berber or Berbers may refer to: Ethnic group * Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa * Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages Places * Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile People with the surname * Ady Berber (1913–196 ...

tribe living in the

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province of

Mauretania Caesariensis Mauretania Caesariensis (Latin for "Caesarea, Numidia, Caesarean Mauretania") was a Roman province located in present-day Algeria. The full name refers to its capital Caesarea, Numidia, Caesarea Mauretaniae (modern Cherchell). The province had ...

between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD. They are known only from inscriptions. They are sometimes portrayed as nomads and other times as sedentary mountaineers.Gabriel Camps
"Bavares"
''Encyclopédie berbère'', document B48 (online 1 March 2013, retrieved 1 October 2019).

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argues that the name "Berbers" (

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''barbari'') does not derive from "

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", as usually thought, but from the name of the Bavares.Gabriel Camps, ''Berbères: aux marges de l'histoire'' (Éditions des Hespérides, 1980), 86–87.

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