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    Laayoune (redirect from El Aaiún)
    Retrieved 17 August 2019. "el-Aaiún". Lexico UK English Dictionary UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.[dead link] "El Aaiún". Collins English Dictionary...
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  • Intifada (redirect from El Aaiún Intifada)
    Intifada (Arabic: انتفاضة, romanized: intifāḍah) is an Arabic word for a rebellion or uprising, or a resistance movement. It can be used to refer to an...
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    capital city of the SADR is El Aaiún (the capital of the territory of Western Sahara). Since the SADR does not control El Aaiún, it has established a temporary...
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    Francis of Assisi Cathedral (Spanish: Catedral de San Francisco de Asís de El Aaiún; French: Cathédrale de Saint François d'Assise) or just Spanish Cathedral...
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    Moroccan Army of Liberation, engaged in heavy fighting with Spanish forces at El Aaiún and Edchera. By February 1958, a joint Spanish and French offensive had...
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    capital was El Aaiún (Laâyoune), and it also included the city of Smara. The territory takes its name from an intermittent river, the Saguia el-Hamra, the...
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    Sheikh Mohamed Laghdaf Stadium (Arabic: ملعب الشيخ محمد لغضف) is a multi-use stadium located in Laayoune, Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco. It is used...
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    is also known as Laayoune Plage (El Aaiún Beach). The town also has a hospital. El Marsa is to the west of El Aaiún, on the N1, Morocco's main highway...
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  • El Aaiun egdat is the third album of Sahrawi singer Mariem Hassan. The album reached Number 1 on the World Music Charts Europe (WMCE) on June and July...
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    Hassan I Airport (category Buildings and structures in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra)
    Airport (Arabic: مطار الحسن الأول, Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de El Aaiún – Hassan I, French: Aéroport international Laâyoune – Hassan Ier (IATA:...
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    El Aaiun refugee camp (Arabic: مخيم العيون) is one of the Sahrawi refugee camps located in Tindouf province in southwest Algeria. It is located 5 miles...
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  • and one helipad (military in Cape Bojador). Hassan I Airport, serving El Aaiún (Laâyoune), is an international airport, but the carriers at the airport...
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    Spanish: Bucraa) is a town in Western Sahara, south-east of the main city of El Aaiún. It is inhabited almost exclusively by employees of phosphate company Phosboucraa...
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    Algiers (redirect from El Djazzair)
    he visited the Atlas Mountains during his labors. Algiers is also known as el-Behdja (البهجة, "The Joyous") or "Algiers the White" (French: Alger la Blanche)...
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    Spanish: República Árabe Saharaui Democrática El Aaiún (proclaimed) Arabic: العيون (AlʿUyūn) Spanish: El Aaiún 582,478 267,405 km2 (103,246 sq mi) Sahrawi...
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  • demonstrators being arrested.[3][4] Demonstrations began on 21 May 2005 in El Aaiún, after relatives protesting the transfer of a Sahrawi prisoner accused...
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  • placenames meaning springs, fountains, sources An alternative form of El Aaiún, a city in Western Sahara Ayun (woreda), a district of Somali Region, Ethiopia...
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    purchased 150,000 cubic metres of sand, weighing around 270,000 tons, from the El Aaiún region. It was transported by the company Fosfatos de Bucraa, and 5 million...
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  • Eswatini −26.42 Lobamba (royal and legislative) Eswatini (Swaziland) 27.15 El Aaiún (declared) Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [c] The Sahrawi Republic, recognised...
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  • rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1938, he founded the city of El Aaiún, which in 1940 became the capital of Spanish Sahara. He died on 28 December...
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    accord. In 2022, Archirodon drew critism on its involvement in the port of El Aaiún, in the disputed territory of the Western Sahara, from where OCP currently...
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    when a group of Sahrawis erected the protest camp 12 km. south-east of El Aaiún, the administrative capital of the Moroccan-administered Southern Provinces...
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    Ouagadougou, São Tomé, Bissau, Monrovia, Bamako, Nouakchott, Freetown, Lomé, El Aaiún (Laayoune), Tifariti, Tindouf Burkina Faso Ivory Coast The Gambia Ghana...
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    Egypt Conakry, Guinea Dakar, Senegal Djibouti, Djibouti Dodoma, Tanzania El Aaiún (claimed)/Tifariti (factual), Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic1 Freetown...
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    Consequently, the migratory pressure shifted towards the maritime route between El Aaiún in Western Sahara and the Canary Islands. This route typically lasts throughout...
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    El Fadli, KI; et al. (September 2012). "World Meteorological Organization Assessment of the Purported World Record 58°C Temperature Extreme at El Azizia...
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    p. 341. ISBN 9788479626402. queremos sugerir el término de literatura africana hispana o simplemente el de literatura africana de expresión castellana...
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    Timeanddate.com. Archived from the original on March 30, 2021. "Time Zone in El Aaiún, Western Sahara". Timeanddate.com. Archived from the original on February...
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    Umm Dreiga. On December 11, 1975, the first Moroccan troops arrived in El Aaiún, and fighting erupted with the Polisario Front. On December 20, Mauritanian...
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    route in parallel with the Moroccan Wall, that starts in the Wilaya of El Aaiún, in the Sahrawi refugee camps. Tifariti is twinned with: Agliana, Pistoia...
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