{"slug": "mauritania", "label": "Mauritania", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1025", "qid": "Q1025", "description": "sovereign state in West Africa and North Africa", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [990, 2017], "span_label": ["990 CE", "2017 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "almoravid-dynasty", "label": "Almoravid dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berbers", "label": "Berbers", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 990, "year_label": "990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Ghana Empire takes the Berber town of Aoudaghost (modern Mauritania) as the West African nation makes further gains.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908655#Africa", "title": "990", "revid": 1341908655, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1056, "year_label": "1056 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Tabfarilla in modern day Mauritania: The Almoravids are crushed by the Godala and their Emir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365382431#Northern_Africa", "title": "1056", "revid": 1365382431, "section": "Events › By place › Northern Africa"}}, {"year": 1076, "year_label": "1076 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire (modern Mauritania), is besieged by the Almoravids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362789427#Africa", "title": "1076", "revid": 1362789427, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – The admission of Mauritania to the United Nations is vetoed by the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#December", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania. Mauritania withdraws from the Western Sahara territory it had occupied, and cedes it to the SADR.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#August", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – In Mauritania, security forces open fire on violent extremist opponents of President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, allegedly killing at least four people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#January", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Mauritania is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially abolished in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370930640#Unknown_date", "title": "2007", "revid": 1370930640, "section": "Events › Unknown date"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372634791#August", "title": "2008", "revid": 1372634791, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Mauritania holds a constitutional referendum for approval of proposed amendments to the constitution.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#August", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › August"}}]}