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Western Sahara LUcat Search catalogue 294943986

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
West-Sahara

UFA
Spanish West Africa

IND
2

MIS
A region of NW Africa, on the Atlantic coast between Morocco and Mauritania; pop. (est. 1989) 186,500; capital, La'youn. The region was formerly an overseas Spanish province, called Spanish Sahara. After the Spanish withdrew in 1976 it was renamed and annexed by Morocco and Mauritania. Mauritania withdrew in 1979 and Morocco extended its control over the entire region. A liberation movement, the Polisario Front (Frente Polisario), which launched a guerrilla war against the Spanish in 1973, has continued its struggle against Morocco in an attempt to establish an independent Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (The Oxford English Reference Dictionary, 1996).

PPN
294943986

UDC
(648)

MRF
(648)

BT1
Northern Africa

UF
Rio de Oro
Spanish Sahara

RT
Saharawis

BSO
01.02.01 AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND REGIONS

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