1527: 'Arab World' Feb 17, 2019

Since discussions in the domain of geopolitics often relate to huge amounts of land and millions of people, a lot of generalizations need to be made. For instance, when people speak of the 'Arab world', this usually relates to parts of North Africa and West Asia that have predominantly Arab-speaking populations. However, this then includes many millions of speakers of language like Berber or Kurdish that don't resemble Arabic at all.

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