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  2. History of Mauritania - Wikipedia

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    Berbers moved south to Mauritania beginning in the 3rd century, followed by Arabs in the late 7th century, subjugating and assimilating Mauritania's original inhabitants. From the 8th through the 15th century, black kingdoms of the western Sudan , such as Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, brought their political culture from the south.

  3. Colonial Mauritania - Wikipedia

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    With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, France's African territories were called upon to supply troops and provisions for the war effort. After France fell in 1940, the Vichy government gained control of the AOF and replaced the official policy of assimilation with a policy of racial discrimination in shops, trains, and hotels. Existing ...

  4. Mauritania - Wikipedia

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    Mauritania, [a] formally the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, [b] is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast , Mali to the east and southeast , and Senegal to the southwest .

  5. Category:History of Mauritania - Wikipedia

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    History of Mauritania by period (4 C, 2 P) History of Mauritania by topic (5 C) * Mauritania history-related lists (7 P) E. Historical events in Mauritania (7 C) F.

  6. Precolonial Mauritania - Wikipedia

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    In the year 41 AD Suetonius Paullinus, afterwards Consul, was the first of the Romans who led an army across Mount Atlas. At the end of a ten days' march he reached the summit,—which even in summer was covered with snow,—and from thence, after passing a desert of black sand and burnt rocks, he arrived at a river called Gerj...he then penetrated into the country of the Canarii and Perorsi ...

  7. List of years in Mauritania - Wikipedia

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  8. Republic of Mauritania (1960–1978) - Wikipedia

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    The direct cost of Mauritania's colonial venture proved exorbitant. Mauritania rapidly increased its armed forces from only 3,000 at the beginning of 1976 to about 12,000 at the beginning of 1977; by mid-1978 the Mauritanian armed forces numbered between 15,000 and 17,000. Between 1975 and 1977, the government's expenditures increased by 64 ...

  9. Portal:Mauritania/Intro - Wikipedia

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    By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara. Most of its population of some 4.3 million lives in the temperate south of the country, with roughly a third concentrated in the capital and largest city, Nouakchott, on the Atlantic coast.