
History of Mauritania
Mauritanian history. Doctorate in African Business
History of
Mauritania (Maghreb)
- 70,000 years: first inhabitants in Mauritania
- Bafour were the first Saharans to abandon nomadism
- 3th century: Berbers are implanted in Southern Mauritania
- 8th century: Yemeni Arabs arrive
- Islamisation of Mauritania (500 years)
- 8th-10th centuries: Sanhadja Confederation
- 8th-15th centuries: Black Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai (Western Sudan)
-
Slave Trade
- 11th-12th centuries: Almoravids Empire and Almohade Empire
- 15th - 19th centuries: contacts with the Europeans
- French Colonisation of Mauritania
- 1904: delimitation of the Mauritanian borders by France
and Spain
- 1958: foundation of Nouakchott
- 1960: Independence (France)
- President: Moktar Ould Daddah
- Popular Party of Mauritania (PPM)
- 1964: One-party authoritarian state in 1964
-
Sub-Saharan African Immigration (Haalpulaar,
Soninké and Wolof) to the
Senegal river
- Mauritanian Arabisation
- Ethnic tensions (slaves)
- Construction of the Zuérate railway (iron ore deposits,
Logistics in Mauritania)
- 1974: Mauritania withdraws from the CFA franc zone, creation of the
ouguiya (currency)
- 1975: invasion of ancient Spanish Sahara (Western Sahara)
- Economic collapse
- 1978: coup d'état (Colonel Mustafa Ould Salek)
- 1981: Mauritania became the last country in the world to abolish
slavery
More information: Business in Mauritania, at EENI Website.
Mauritania
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