The Lamtuna are a Berber tribe from the region of Mauritania-Western Sahara-Morocco-Algeria. They claim descent from Himyar, one of the South Arabian eponyms.^{[citation needed]} The Almoravids, the founders of Marrakech in Morocco where they established their capital, originated from this tribe.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] See also

• Gudalah tribe
• Massufa tribe
• Sanhaja confederation
• Almoravids

[edit] External links

• Nebel A, Landau-Tasseron E, Filon D, Oppenheim A, Faerman M (June 2002). "Genetic evidence for the expansion of Arabian tribes into the Southern Levant and North Africa". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 70 (6): 1594–6. doi:10.1086/340669. PMID 11992266. PMC 379148. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0002-9297(07)60713-7. 

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