Gueshtulas

Gueshtulas, a group of nine confederate Berber tribes chiefly in the Great Kabyle uplands, Algeria, with a collective population of nearly 20,000. By some writers the term Gneshtula has been identified with the Getuli of antiquity. The Getuli occupied a vast domain in Mauritania, mainly south of Numidia; but they were broken and dispersed in various directions by the great Arab invasion of the eleventh century, and some of their tribes may still be represented by the Bu-Addu, Bu-Gherdari, Kufi, Shurfa, and the other members of the Gueshtula confederacy in Algeria.