mauritania in English

noun
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a country in West Africa with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean; population 3,129,500 (est. 2009); capital, Nouakchott; languages, Arabic (official), Wolof (official), and French.

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1. Ajar, Afghanistan; Ajar, Mauritania; People

2. This is a list of cities in Mauritania by population.

3. The Almoravids may have originated in what is now Mauritania

4. Almoravids (ălmôr`əvĭdz), Berber Muslim dynasty that ruled Morocco and Muslim Spain in the 11th and 12th cent.The Almoravids may have originated in what is now Mauritania Mauritania, officially Islamic Republic of Mauritania, republic (2015 est

5. The moment they were perpetrated, Mauritania voiced its absolute condemnation of those terrorist acts

6. The Almoravids were a group of zealous Muslims, originating in southern Mauritania

7. The Berbers live in scattered communities across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Mauritania

8. Mauritania maintains its willingness to support any solution that would be mutually agreeable to the parties.

9. Across the border in Mauritania, there are about 1000 Bambara living near the town of Timbedra

10. The moment they were perpetrated, Mauritania voiced its absolute condemnation of those terrorist acts.

11. On 2 July, it ran aground on a sandbank off the West African coast, near today's Mauritania.

12. Her commitment to oppression and slavery in Mauritania brought her 1987, a prison sentence of six months.

13. In the West African nations of Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Mauritania, fishing was historically central to the economy.

14. (World rankings shown in brackets) Notes Mauritania did not participate in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

15. She is a consulting lawyer of various organizations and in 1994 she was an observer in the presidential elections in Mauritania.

16. Chattel slavery still exists in the world in countries such as Mauritania and Sudan, countries on the continent of Africa

17. Across the border in Mauritania, there are a small number of Bambara living near the town of Timbedra

18. As a result of the 2008–09 Gaza War, Mauritania, Qatar, Bolivia, and Venezuela suspended political and economic ties with Israel.

19. Boubou is an essential African garment that can be found in Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, Mali, Djibouti and other countries of Central Africa

20. Braced is operating in 13 countries - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Senegal, Niger, Mauritania, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Myanmar, and Nepal

21. Fatimata Mbaye received the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award for her fight against slavery in Mauritania and racial/ethnic discrimination in 1999.

22. In Mauritania, Abu Bakr led the Almoravids in a war against Ghana (1062-76), culminating in the capture in 1076 of Koumbi Saleh

23. Originally West African, Berber nomads, the Almoravids emerged from what is today Mauritania to rule Morocco, western Algeria, and Muslim Spain

24. The Government of Mauritania reported that it continued to be pressured into accepting groups of migrants allegedly dropped at its borders

25. The Government of Mauritania reported that it continued to be pressured into accepting groups of migrants allegedly dropped at its borders.

26. Unlike North and West Africa, home of such great "library cities" as Tunis, Fez, and Timbuktu, Mauritania never had large sedentary population centers.http://Sentencedict.com

27. The barbeled houndshark occurs along the western coast of Africa from Mauritania to northern Angola, though it may range as far north as the Mediterranean Sea.

28. Mr. Ould Ahmed Tolba (Mauritania) said that he supported Malaysia's proposed amendment, since it would allow the abolitionists more time to consider the positions of those States who remained in favour of the death penalty

29. In November 2015, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of Mauritania, reportedly ordered the 2015 Mauritanian Super Cup to go to a penalty shootout in the 63rd minute with the score tied 1–1 because he was getting bored with the match.

30. The Almoravids, or al-Murabitun as they called themselves, were an Islamic Berber dynasty that established an empire in Morocco and eventually took it over a wide region of Northwest Africa including modern Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, and part of Algeria

31. The Arabs comprise most of the population of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the People’s Republic of Southern Yemen, Oman and Muscat, Trucial Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Republic (UAR), Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, and Sudan.

32. The conglomerate tribes known under the generic term of Berbers or Imazighen are the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa since time immemorial; currently distributed across a wide extent of country including Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, and Burkina Faso.

33. The Almoravids, or al-Murabitun as they called themselves, were an Islamic Berber dynasty that established an empire in Morocco and eventually took it over a wide region of Northwest Africa including modern Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, and part of Algeria.

34. The city called Caesarea — or more complete: Caesarea Maritima, to distinguish it from Caesarea Philippi, Caesarea in Mauritania, or the one in Phoenicia or the similarly named capital of Cappadocia — was a city on the Judean coast, at a latitude a touch south of the Sea of Galilee.

35. In modern usage, it embraces any of the Arabic-speaking peoples living in the vast region from Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, to southwestern Iran, including the entire Maghrib of North Africa, Egypt and Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and Syria and Iraq.

36. Algeria is a country located in North Africa, with a Mediterranean Sea coastline in the north and sharing its borders with Morocco to the northwest, Tunisia to the northeast, Libya to the east, Niger to the southeast, Mali to the southwest, Mauritania and Western Sahara to the west.