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Mauritania

sovereign state in West Africa and North Africa

9 dated entries naming Mauritania, drawn from 9 separate years between 990 CE and 2017 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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10th century

  • 990The Ghana Empire takes the Berber town of Aoudaghost (modern Mauritania) as the West African nation makes further gains.source

11th century

  • 1056Battle of Tabfarilla in modern day Mauritania: The Almoravids are crushed by the Godala and their Emir.source
  • 1076Approximate date – Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire (modern Mauritania), is besieged by the Almoravids.source

20th century

  • 1960December 4 – The admission of Mauritania to the United Nations is vetoed by the Soviet Union.source
  • 1979August 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.source
  • 1992January 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.source

21st century

  • 2007Mauritania is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially abolished in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.source
  • 2008August 6 – President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état.source
  • 2017August 5 – Mauritania holds a constitutional referendum for approval of proposed amendments to the constitution.source

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