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Río de Oro (at bottom) during Spanish colonisation Desolate landscape terrain in the Río de Oro region, near the town of Guerguerat Stamp of Rio de Oro issued in 1907. Río de Oro (Spanish: [ˈri.o ðe ˈoɾo] ⓘ, Spanish for "River of Gold"; Arabic: وادي الذهب, Wādī-aḏ-Ḏāhab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab) is the ...
The Río de Oro or Wad ad-Dahab Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Río de Oro or Península de Villa Cisneros) is a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of Western SaharaThe city of Dakhla (Villa Cisneros) lies on the peninsula.
The Battle of Río de Oro was a single-ship action fought in August 1914 during the First World War, when HMS Highflyer attacked the German SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off Río de Oro on the coast of Northwest Africa.
In June 1920, Spain issued postage stamps of its existing colony Río de Oro overprinted "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGÜERA". [1] These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara, as La Güera was incorporated to the Spanish colony of Rio ...
It was, with Río de Oro, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969. Its name comes from a waterway that goes through the capital. The wadi is inhabited by the Oulad Tidrarin Sahrawi tribe. Occupying the northern part of Western Sahara, it lay between the 26th parallel north and 27°50'N.
The 16th Congress of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia El Hamra and Río de Oro (Arabic: المؤتمر السادس عشر للجبهة الشعبية لتحرير الساقية الحمراء ووادي الذهب, Spanish: XVI Congreso del Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia El Hamra y Río de Oro) was held in the Dajla refugee camp in Tindouf, Algeria between 13 and ...
Río de Oro is one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969. Río de Oro may also refer to: Río de Oro, Cesar, a town in Colombia; Río de Oro (Melilla), a river in Morocco; Río de Oro (Argentina), a river in Argentina; Río de Oro (Catatumbo), a river in Colombia and Venezuela
(in Spanish) Rio de Oro official website (in Spanish) Gobernacion del Cesar, Rio de Oro This page was last edited on 26 October 2024, at 07:45 (UTC). Text is ...