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    Atar (Arabic: أطار, Berber for mountain) is a town in northwestern Mauritania, the capital of the Adrar Region and the main settlement on the Adrar Plateau...
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  • Air Mauritanie was the national airline of Mauritania from 1962 until it ceased operations in 2007 due to financial difficulties. It was based at Nouakchott...
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    Mauritania (redirect from Mauritanie)
    geographers as Bilad Chinqit, "the land of the Chinguetti". The term "Mauritanie occidentale" was officially used in a ministerial circular in 1899, based...
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    includes naval infantry. The small Air Force (Force Aérienne Islamique de Mauritanie, FAIM) has 250 personnel, 2 FTB-337 aircraft, 15 transport aircraft of...
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    Located south-west of the city of Atar in Mauritania, erg Amatlich is a vast dune barrier of small dimensions (130 km x 5 km to 8 km) trapped between the...
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    The Mauritania Islamic Air Force (French: Force Aérienne Islamique de Mauritanie or FAIM) is the air force of the Armed Forces of Mauritania. It was established...
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    town in north-western Mauritania, lying on the Adrar Plateau, north-west of Atar. In the eleventh century it was the first capital of the Almoravid dynasty...
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  • Developpement Rural Et De L’environnement de la Republique Islamique De Mauritanie Projet Oasis (2004) entry NoAD15, which noted a total population of 110...
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  • System Reform. Mohamed Melainine Ould Eyih was born on 15 December 1968 in Atar, Mauritania. From September 1990 to October 1995 he was a teacher at the...
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  • (PPM), the sole legal party in the country. Tribus, ethnies et pouvoir en Mauritanie. Nouvelle édition. KARTHALA Editions. 1 February 2010. pp. 106–107....
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    Mauritania from 1981 to 1992 except for a brief period in 1984. Born in Atar, French Mauritania, al-Taya studied at Franco-Arab school and then French...
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  • in Atar) is a Mauritanian politician. He has served as a former leader of the Qadiriyya Islamic brotherhood. Ould Cheikh Melainine was born in Atar, then...
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    trading center in northern Mauritania, located on the Adrar Plateau east of Atar. Chinguetti had a population of 4,800 as of 2013. Founded in the 13th century...
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    Le Dossier de la Mauritanie (in French). Nouvelles Editions Latines. ISBN 978-2-7233-0035-3. Daddah, Mokhtar Ould (2003). La Mauritanie contre vents et...
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    Mauritania twice, from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2005 to 2007. Born in Atar in 1957, Sidi Mohamed became regional treasurer in Nouadhibou in April 1983...
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  • capitale de l'empire de Ghana: Etude d'un secteur, d'habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie: Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975–1976)-(1980–1981), British Archaeological...
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  • Nouadhibou from the mines inland at Zouerat. From Choum this provided access to Atar, at the foot of the Adrar plateau, scenically and culturally the gateway...
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    departments of Mauritania for more information. ISO 3166-2:MR "Le Maroc et la Mauritanie délimitent leur frontière au Sahara occidental". Le Monde.fr (in French)...
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    iron ore extraction were given to Miferma, Société des mines de fer de Mauritanie. At the time it was majority-controlled by European-based mining interests...
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    brief of study in Córdoba. After the Almoravid conquest of Azougui, close to Atar in present-day Mauritania by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, al-Hadrami followed him to...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oualata. Map showing Oualata: Fond Typographique 1:200,000, République Islamique de Mauritanie Sheet NE-29-XI....
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    For June 29". www.barrons.com. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 21 April 2024. "Mauritanie: l'élection présidentielle fixée au 29 juin". Le 360 Afrique (in French)...
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    الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية Président de la République Islamique de la Mauritanie Seal of Mauritania Presidential standard Incumbent Mohamed Ould Ghazouani...
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    Internet Archive. Prudhomme, (Commandant) (1925), "La sebkha d'Ijil (Mauritanie)" (PDF), Bulletin du Comité de'études historiques et scientifiques de...
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  • Ksar) Mauritanian Premier League Mauritanian Super Cup Football/ Coupe de Mauritanie : le FC Nouadhibou bat Nouakchott Kings aux tirs au but Mauritania Cup...
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    University School of Archaeology Monograph. 57: 73–80. Map showing Tichit: Fond Typographique 1:200,000, République Islamique de Mauritanie Sheet NE-29-XV...
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    Elsa (1978-02-01). "De l'opération « Ecouvillon » à l'intervention en Mauritanie" [From operation “Ecouvillon” to intervention in Mauritania]. Le Monde...
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    few kilometers remain unpaved at the Moroccan border fr:Transport en Mauritanie. From Dakar there are links throughout western Africa. The north-western...
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  • Nouakchott, including the Central Bank, the National Assembly and Radio Mauritanie, while the Armed Forces restricted access to major streets of the capital...
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    perles de verre en Mauritanie", Notes Africaines, No. 44, 1949, pp. 116–118., and "Contribution a la prehistoire de la Mauritanie occidentale", Bulletin...
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