Mauritania

The capital:             Nouakchott

The inhabitants enumerated:             2,828,858 breath of air (estimate of July 2002)

The language:             Arab [Hsnyaa]

The sweat:             Mixture [maawrwznjy] (40%), [maawr] (30%), Negro (30%)

The climate:             Hot days for period more than 6 months and to cold night is

Regime of the governing:             The republican

The economy                        

- the currency:             ['awjwyaa]

- [aalmwaaryd]:             Iron ore, phosphate, as land, copper, plaster

The religion:             The Islam

History

Mauritania has been inhabited since prehistoric times. From about the 4th century BC it formed part of the Ghana and Mali empires of western Africa. It was the homeland of the Berbers. The influence of Islam has been dominant since the 7th century AD. Europeans discovered Mauritania in the 15th century, but it was not exploited until 1904, when it was made part of French West Africa. It became independent in 1960 and a republic in 1961. 

Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory. Opposition parties were legalized and a new constitution approved in 1991. Two multiparty presidential elections since then were widely seen as being flawed; Mauritania remains, in reality, a one-party state. The country continues to experience ethnic tensions between its black minority population and the dominant Maur (Arab-Berber) populace.