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unusual facts about El Marsa, Western Sahara


El Marsa

El Marsa, Western Sahara, a port city of Western Sahara under Moroccan control


15th World Festival of Youth and Students

A large delegation of over 400 people came with the Polisario Front from Western Sahara who raised the issue of their ongoing conflict with Morocco, organizing solidarity tents, dinners, rallies, workshops, and cultural activities about the issue which created thousands of refugees in that country.

Admetula cornidei

This species is found in European waters and in the Atlantic Ocean along Western Sahara, Canary Islands and Mauritania at depths between 50 m and 125 m.

Blackspotted smooth-hound

The blackspotted smooth-hound, Mustelus punctulatus, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the subtropical eastern Atlantic from the Mediterranean to the Western Sahara between latitudes 45° N and 20° N, from the surface to 250 m.

Calliostoma cleopatra

This bathyal species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Western Sahara and in the Bay of Biscay.

El Marsa

El Marsa, Algiers, a municipality or commune of Algiers province, Algeria

El Marsa, Chlef, a municipality or commune of Chlef province, Algeria

El Marsa, Skikda, a municipality or commune of Skikda province, Algeria

Flag of the Ba'ath Party

The flag is almost identical to the Palestinian flag, and extremely similar to the flags of Jordan, and Western Sahara, all of which draw their inspiration from the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule (1916–1918).

Front Polisario Khat al-Shahid

It is based in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria, but also claims to has supporters and members in the Sahrawi diaspora in Mauritania, Morocco, Spain, France and various European countries, as well as in the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara.

Guelmim

It is the capital of the Guelmim-Es Semara region which includes southern Morocco (south of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region) and northern Western Sahara.

International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara

They engaged in several attacks against Spanish garrisons or patrols, and also attacked the Fosbucraa conveyor belt, which exported the rich local phosphates to the El Marsa port.

Jean Vieuchange

Jean Joseph Marie Vieuchange (1906–2003) was a French adventurer and doctor, best known for preparing for publication the hand-written notebooks of his brother, Michel, describing his discovery of Smara in the Western Sahara in November 1930.

Laaroussien

The Laaroussien (also spelled Larosien, Laârousienne, Aarousiyine, al-Arosien, etc.) is a Sahrawi tribe traditionally migrating within the region that is today the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

Luke Piper

Luke Piper has travelled around the world to paint, including Nairobi via Western Sahara and Zaire in 1995, the Sahara desert in 1999 and 2000, Nepal and the Himalayas in 1998 and 2000–01, and Australia, New Zealand and Fiji in 2002–03.

Mallemin

The mallemin (also maalemine, muallemin etc.; derived from a plural of the Arabic word mu`allim, meaning approximately "sir" or "teacher") were a professional caste of blacksmiths and metalworkers within Hassaniya Arab society, Mauritania, southern Morocco and Western Sahara and .

Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah

Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah (born 1949 in Smara, Western Sahara) is a Moroccan gastroenterologist and politician.

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal

The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal examined the cases of Tibet, Western Sahara, Argentina, Eritrea, Philippine, El Salvador, Afghanistan, East Timor, Zaïre, Guatemala, the Armenian Genocide or recently the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka, the intervention of the United States in Nicaragua, Brazilian Amazon, etc.

Postage stamps and postal history of Mauritania

Mauritania is a country in North Africa bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest.

Suzanne Scholte

The Seoul Peace Prize award, instituted in 1990 and given biennially, was declared at the Korea Press Center to honor Suzanne for the contributions she made to the cause of North Korean peoples' freedom and human rights and the refugees of Western Sahara.

William L. Eagleton

After his term as Ambassador to Syria ended in 1988, Eagleton worked with the United Nations as Deputy Commissioner-General for Palestinian Refugees (1988–94), Special Coordinator for Sarajevo (1994–1996), and Director of UN Operations in Western Sahara (1999-2001).

Worm pipefish

Worm pipefish (Nerophis lumbriciformis) is a species of Pipefishes, found in the North-eastern Atlantic along the coasts of Europe from the southern Norway, Kattegat and British Islands to Río de Oro in Western Sahara.


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