{"slug": "mauritania", "label": "Mauritania", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1025", "qid": "Q1025", "description": "sovereign state in West Africa and North Africa", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [990, 2017], "span_label": ["990 CE", "2017 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Islamic Republic of Mauritania"], "related": [{"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "almoravid-dynasty", "label": "Almoravid dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ghana-empire", "label": "Ghana Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-nations-security-council", "label": "United Nations Security Council", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongolia", "label": "Mongolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berbers", "label": "Berbers", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "west-africa", "label": "West Africa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-sahara", "label": "Western Sahara", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 990, "year_label": "990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Ghana Empire takes the Berber town of Aoudaghost (modern Mauritania) as the West African nation makes further gains.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908655#Africa", "title": "990", "revid": 1341908655, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1056, "year_label": "1056 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Tabfarilla in modern day Mauritania: The Almoravids are crushed by the Godala and their Emir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365382431#Northern_Africa", "title": "1056", "revid": 1365382431, "section": "Events › By place › Northern Africa"}}, {"year": 1076, "year_label": "1076 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire (modern Mauritania), is besieged by the Almoravids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362789427#Africa", "title": "1076", "revid": 1362789427, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 - The Islamic Republic of Mauritania had applied to be the 100th member of the United Nations, but the request was vetoed in the Security Council by the Soviet Union, on grounds that Mongolia had been denied admission.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1252889227#December", "title": "1960 in Mauritania", "revid": 1252889227, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – The admission of Mauritania to the United Nations is vetoed by the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#December", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 - Morocco and Mauritania announced they would invade Western Sahara and split it between themselves after Spain announces a referendum would be held for the Sahrawi colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1253758480#October", "title": "1975 in Morocco", "revid": 1253758480, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania. Mauritania withdraws from the Western Sahara territory it had occupied, and cedes it to the SADR.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#August", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 26", "text": "January 26 – In Mauritania, security forces open fire on violent extremist opponents of President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, allegedly killing at least four people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#January", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Mauritania is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially abolished in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370930640#Unknown_date", "title": "2007", "revid": 1370930640, "section": "Events › Unknown date"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372634791#August", "title": "2008", "revid": 1372634791, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Mauritania holds a constitutional referendum for approval of proposed amendments to the constitution.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#August", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › August"}}]}