Maghrebis or Maghrebians (Arabic: المغاربيون‎, Berber languages: ⵎⴰⴳⵕⵉⴱⵉ) is a modern Arabic term meaning "Westerners", mainly referring to the western part of the Arab world. are the inhabitants of Maghreb region, the westernmost part of North Africa. Maghrebis were known in medieval times as Roman Africans or Moors. The term Moor is derived from Mauri, the Roman name for the Berbers of Mauretania, land of the Moors, the Roman name for the western part of the Maghreb. The Maghrebis are mainly of Arab and Berber origins, the rest are Arab-Berbers and Arabized Berbers. The Berbers are native to the region and synonymous with the term in older and historiographical literature.