History of Mauritania (1960–1978)
Islamic Republic of Mauritania | |||||||||
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| 1960–1978 | |||||||||
| Motto: شرف، إخاء، عدل (Arabic) "Honor, Fraternity, Justice" | |||||||||
| Anthem: National Anthem of Mauritania | |||||||||
Location of Mauritania (dark green) in western Africa | |||||||||
| Capital | Nouakchott | ||||||||
| Government | Unitary one-party Islamic socialist republic under an authoritarian dictatorship | ||||||||
| Moktar Ould Daddah | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1960 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1978 | ||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | MR | ||||||||
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Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, was an Arab Maghreb country in West Africa. It was 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 was 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.