Cluster mauritania

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The Nation includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

Establishment

  • May 1903: French Mauritania was officially established on 21 May 1903.

Chronology

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1. Western Sahara War

Was a conflict of Marocco and Mauritania (until 1979) against the Sahrawi Indigenous Polisario Front that followed the Spanish withdrawal from Spanish Sahara. The Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front established the Sahrawi Republic and engaged in a guerrilla warfare with Moroccan forces. Morocco did also build several walls in the region to consolidate its control. The conflict ended with a ceasefire in 1991 with most of former Spanish Sahara under Moroccan control.

1.1. Moroccan-Mauretanian Invasion

Was the occupation and partition of Spanish Sahara by Morocco and Mauritania after the withdrawal of the Spanish forces.

  • December 1975: In 1975, Mauritanian President Mokhtar Ould Daddah's troops seized Tichla and Lagouira, marking the military occupation of the territory. This action was part of Mauritania's territorial expansion efforts in the region.
  • January 1976: Mauritanian troops occupy Dakhla.
  • January 1976: At the beginning of 1976, Mauritania, under the leadership of President Moktar Ould Daddah, theoretically controlled the southern third of Western Sahara, while Morocco, led by King Hassan II, controlled the northern two thirds. This division led to conflict and instability in the region.

1.2. Mauretania leaves Western Sahara

Mauritania declared a unilateral ceasefire with the Sahrawi Republic and withdraw its troops form Western Sahara.

  • August 1979: In 1979, Mauritania declared a unilateral ceasefire against the Polisario Front because of the military putsch that overthrew former President Moktar Ould Daddah a year earlier. The Mauritanian forces handed over the occupied territories to Morocco.
  • August 1979: The Moroccans reconquered the Mauretanian occupied region in Western Sahara.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • January 1906: After the death of Emir Bakar in 1905, Tagant came under the protectorate of France.
  • January 1909: Establishment of French protectorate in Adrar.
  • November 1960: Mauritania became independent from France in 1960 through the Franco-Mauritanian agreements. This marked the end of colonial rule in the region and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.