Green March
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The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government and the military, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan pro
Marches of 7 November (in green) and military action of 31 October (in red)
A 100 dirham note from 1991 commemorating the Green March
Spanish Sahara
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Spanish Sahara, officially the Spanish Possessions in the Sahara from 1884 to 1958, then Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when
Green March
…1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government and the military, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan province of Spanish Sahara to Morocco. The Spanish government was preparing to abandon the territory as part of the decolonization of Africa, just as it had granted independence…
Spanish barracks in El Aaiún, 1972
Postage stamp issued in 1924
Villa Cisneros fortress and aircraft booth, 1930 or 1931