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    Tiris al-Gharbiyya (Arabic: تيرس الغربية, romanized: Tīris al-Ġarbiyya, lit. 'Western Tiris') was the name for the area of Western Sahara under Mauritanian...
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  • up tiris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tiris (Arabic: تيرس) may refer to: Tiris Zemmour Tiris al-Gharbiyya (Western Tiris) Tiris (band) TIRIS, Texas...
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    the lower third of the colony as a northern province called Tiris al-Gharbiyya (Western Tiris). Its provincial capital was already called Dakhla. After...
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    Provinces, and Mauritania taking control of the southern third as Tiris al-Gharbiyya. Spain terminated its presence in Spanish Sahara within three months...
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    corresponding to the lower half of Río de Oro province) was named Tiris al-Gharbiyya. The regions (wilaya) are subdivided into 44 departments; see departments...
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    Tiris Zemmour (Arabic: ولاية تيرس زمور, romanized: Wilāyat Tiris Zemmour) is the northernmost region of Mauritania. Its capital is Zouérat. Other major...
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    proceeded to occupy the southern third of the country under the name Tiris al-Gharbiyya. Mauritania later abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979...
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    of Western Sahara Moroccan Army of Liberation Southern Provinces Tiris al-Gharbiyya Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Spanish West Africa Díaz Hernández...
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    conflict, heavily criticized the incident. Moroccan Western Sahara Wall Tiris al-Gharbiyya History of Western Sahara Ifni War Battle of Smara (1979) David Dean...
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    colonialism (Spanish Sahara, 1884–1975), Mauritanian irredentism (Tiris al-Gharbiyya, 1975–1979), Moroccan irredentism (Southern Provinces, 1975-present)...
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    three parts, Mauritania getting the southern one, which was named Tiris al-Gharbiyya. Mauritania waged four years of war against Polisario guerrillas,...
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    Oro, or one third of the entire territory, was officially renamed Tiris al-Gharbiyya. The takeover was violently opposed by a pre-existing indigenous independence...
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    Republic; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية, romanized: al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʿArabīyah aṣ-Ṣaḥrāwīyah ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyah; Spanish: República Árabe Saharaui...
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    Dakhla was the provincial capital of the Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya, as Mauritania annexed the southern portion of Western Sahara. Dakhla...
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    el-Hamra, while Mauritania took charge of Río de Oro, renaming it as Tiris al-Gharbiyya. A locally based Sahrawi national liberation movement, known as the...
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    relations with Morocco. The area of Western Sahara evacuated by Mauritania (Tiris al-Gharbiya, roughly corresponding to the southern half of Río de Oro), was...
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    Party (1974–1975) The flag of Mauritania was the official flag of Tiris al-Gharbiyya, the part of Western Sahara annexed by Mauritania (1976–1979) In the...
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    Berm, also called the Moroccan sand wall (Arabic: الجدار الرملي, romanized: al-jidār ar-ramliyya, lit. 'sand wall'), is an approximately 2,700 km-long (1...
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    Mauritania where they were presented as backers of Mauritanian rule in Tiris al-Gharbiyya. After the joint Moroccan-Mauritanian invasion of Western Sahara in...
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    Partition agreement Regions Saguia el-Hamra Río de Oro Southern Provinces Tiris al-Gharbiyya Free Zone Politics Annexation of Western Sahara Political status of...
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    Free Zone or Liberated Territories (Arabic: المنطقة الحرة, romanized: al-minṭaqa al-ḥurra) is a term used by the Polisario Front government of the Sahrawi...
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    el Hamra [saˈɣi.a el ˈxamɾa] , Arabic: الساقية الحمراء, romanized: al-Saqiyah al-Hamra'a, lit. 'Red Canal') is the northern geographic region of Western...
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  • which is a key argument that regime loyalists make in their support of Bashar al-Assad's government," Heras said. Fisk, Robert (29 March 2017). "In northern...
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    authorities stated that they had acted in self-defence, after a Sahrawi attack on Al Mahbes, and launched an offensive to restore free circulation of civilian...
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  • the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1975, renaming it Tiris al-Gharbiyya. However, after nearly three years of raids by the Sahrawi guerrillas...
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    Partition agreement Regions Saguia el-Hamra Río de Oro Southern Provinces Tiris al-Gharbiyya Free Zone Politics Annexation of Western Sahara Political status of...
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    Southern Provinces, and Mauritania annexed the southern third as Tiris al-Gharbiyya. In 1979, Mauritania withdrew due to pressure from Polisario, including...
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    Spanish forces out of much of the Spanish-claimed territory for a long time. Ma al-Aynayn the Saharan pro-Moroccan caïd of Tindouf and Smara named by the Moroccan...
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    Partition agreement Regions Saguia el-Hamra Río de Oro Southern Provinces Tiris al-Gharbiyya Free Zone Politics Annexation of Western Sahara Political status of...
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    Partition agreement Regions Saguia el-Hamra Río de Oro Southern Provinces Tiris al-Gharbiyya Free Zone Politics Annexation of Western Sahara Political status of...
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