History of Mauritania (1960–1978)
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is an Arab Maghreb country in West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Morocco in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest. It is named after the ancient Berber Kingdom of Mauretania, which later became a province of the Roman Empire, even though the modern Mauritania covers a territory far to the south of the old Berber kingdom that had no relation with it.
| History of Mauritania |
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Islamic Republic of Mauritania | |||||||||
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| 1960–1978 | |||||||||
Coat of arms
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| Motto: شرف، إخاء، عدل (Arabic) "Honor, Fraternity, Justice" | |||||||||
| Anthem: National Anthem of Mauritania | |||||||||
| Capital | Nouakchott | ||||||||
| Government | Unitary one-party Islamic socialist republic under an authoritarian dictatorship | ||||||||
• President | Moktar Ould Daddah | ||||||||
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• Established | 1960 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1978 | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | MR | ||||||||
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