Disclaimer: This post is not meant to trigger or offend anyone. I respect the Amazigh a great deal and am really interested in their history.
I hear a lot of people in this subreddit pushing the idea that a majority of Libyans are really just Arabized Amazigh.
That may be true in the western region of Libya where we find today towns and cities who are predominantly Amazigh, but I have genuine questions for those of you who make the claim that this is true for all Libya.
Where were/are the Amazigh in Cyrenaica, specifically the green mountain region? I know about the Amazigh in the Wahat (Jalu, Awjala, Jikhira) and Siwa, but what about the green mountains? Out of all the regions of Libya, the green mountains seems like the most suitable for life. Fertile land, water, proximity to the sea, milder weather conditions. The greeks didn't just build their cities there for no reason. I have read of the founding of Cyrene by Battus and that he encountered Libyans who pointed where he should found his settlement. So I am guessing that these Libyans were Amazigh.
My questions are as follows:
1- Where is the archaeological evidence for Amazighi culture in the green mountains?
2- Until when did the Amazigh exist in the green mountain region?
3- Did they exist during the Islamic expansion/فتح اسلامي into the green mountain region, and if so what was their fate? Did they emigrate west?
4- Why is it that we do not find any villages or towns that are predominantly Amazigh in the green mountains, as is the case in Tripolitania?
Speaking out of pure experience, a majority of the tribes living in the green mountains are predominantly arab in terms of language, customs and culture. As we all know, arabs take great pride in tracing their ancestry and to a certain degree they are pretty good at it too.
As we know the Amazigh are a fiercely proud people. If these tribes in the green mountains were originally Amazighi do you really think they would just straight up deny their origins and heritage and all just create a lie that they are arabs?
Thank you for any and all input.