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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ L'Univers: histoire et description de tous les peuples ... (in French). F. Didot fréres. 1846.
- ↑ d'Avezac, Marie Armand Pascal (1844). Afrique esquisse générale de l'Afrique et Afrique ancienne (in French). Firmin Didot frères.
- ↑ Eos (in French). Nakl. Towarzystwa Filologicznego. 1990.
- ↑ Avezac, Armand d' (1844). Afrique: esquisse générale de l'Afrique et Afrique ancienne (in French). Firmin Didot frères editeurs.
- ↑ L'univers: histoire et description de tous les peuples (in French). Firmin Didot. 1844.
- ↑ Les Berbers Etude sur la Conquete de l'Afrique par les Arabes par Henri Fournel: 1 (in French). A l'imprimerie Nationale. 1875.
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- ↑ Afrique (in French). Editions Bouslama. 1842.