抄録
North African region with a peculiar climate of arid and semiarid, has much common with Southern part of Europe and Middle Eastern regions both geographically and culturally. The varieties of the customs and belief on olive can be seen in this region which shows the importance of olive for their lives. Even though these traditional customs face the modernity, they survive in rural and have been transformed into the adequate mode with urban life. In this paper, the old and new customs and the contemporary theme of olive growing are examined.
