Editing Djerba (section)

=== Antiquity ===
The [[Berbers]] are indigenous to the [[Maghreb]]. They inhabited the coasts and mountains and worked in [[cultivating]] the land. Their [[home]]s are caves and houses carved or built from stones and mud, or straw and tree branches in the form of huts on top of the mountains and [[plateau]]s. Others lived a [[nomad]]ic lifestyle, traveling with their livestock, and they lived under tents. Some sects of them lived by the means of [[plundering]]. Others still lived in populous cities that they built, as proven by [[Ibn Khaldun]] and others. Ibn Khaldun says in the history of Ibn Khaldun, Part One. - 8 of 258:

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Their clothing consists of striped woolen fabric and a black robe. They wear a cordon and a robe. They shave their heads and do not cover them with anything, and they cover their faces with a sham, which is still in practice today. They eat koski, speak and write Challah, and some people, especially in southern Tunisia, such as the mountains of Matmata and Doueirat, still use this language when communicating: it is a distinct language in itself, known from ancient times and frequent until now, and it has its own popular oral literature.

Djerba was settled by different people in antiquity, first by the Greek and later by the [[Phoenicia]]ns in the 12th century BC. who came from Tyre and Sidon. During this period, trade flourished in Djerba, thus spreading the pottery industry and the manufacture of [[Purple Dye|purple dye]], which historians mentioned was comparable to, if not superior to, the purple of Tyre, and was sold at the highest prices. It seems clear that the Phoenicians were the ones who introduced the planting of olive trees, thus spreading the industry of olive pressing.

After the Phoenicians came the Romans, and the island witnessed great prosperity during the Roman era, the urban effects of which still indicate it today. In the fifth century, the [[Vandals]], a Germanic tribe who had emigrated to the Maghreb in 429 AD, conquered the island under the leadership of its king, [[Gaiseric]].