The history of Mauritania. Mauritania documentary. World Of Knowledge

Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania , is a country in Northwest Africa.

It is the twenty-eighth largest country or dependency in the world, the eleventh largest sovereign state in Africa and the largest country lying entirely below an altitude of 1,000 metres .

Mauritania is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest.

The country’s name derives from the name of the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, located in present-day Morocco and Algeria.

Berbers occupied the area that today is Mauritania beginning in the 3rd century CE, until Arabs invaded and conquered it in the 8th century, bringing Islam and Islamic culture with them.

In the late 19th century, during European Scramble for Africa, Mauritania became a French colony.

Mauritania became independent from French West Africa in 1960.

Since then, it has experienced recurrent coups and periods of authoritarian military rule.

The most recent coup, in 2008, was led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who then won presidential elections in 2009 and 2014.

Mohamed Ould Ghazouani's victory in the 2019 Mauritanian presidential election was presented as having been the country's first peaceful transition of power since independence

Approximately 90% of Mauritania's land is in the Sahara.

As a result, most of its inhabitants live in the south of the country, where precipitation is slightly higher.

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