WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNAL FILES note : In 1975, the Spanish administration of what until then was referred to as the Spanish Sahara was terminated. Morocco and Mauretania partitioned the Western Sahara; in 1978 Mauretania withdrew and Morocco absorbed the entire Western Sahara. A Sahrawi exile government, with Algerian support, was formed in 1976. Morocco's annexation of the Western Sahara has not been internationally recognized. Many of the websites below refer to the exile government. A number of links below will only refer to organizations representing the SADR / regard the Moroccan hold of the territory illegitimate. User discretion is advised

Country Profiles

from BBC Country Profiles; from Wikipedia; from Index Mundi; from CIA World Factbook; countries Western Sahara Encyclopedia of the Orient : Western Sahara

Links, General

from Library of Congress, Portals to the World, from BUBL, from African Studies Center, UPenn, from Africa South of the Sahara at Stanford African Studies : W. Sahara, from Columbia Univ. Library Category : Western Sahara, from Wikipedia

Links, on History

Category : History of Western Sahara, from Wikipedia

Historical Dictionaries

Historical Maps

click here

Timelines

Timeline, from Western Sahara Online, very detailed, official site (Polisario)

Accounts of History

from Western Sahara Online; from Wikipedia; from Speedy Look Category : History of Western Sahara, from Wikipedia

Encyclopedia Entries

Article Rio de Oro, from EB 1911 Article Adrar, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888-1890, in German

Politics

Political Resources on the Net : Western Sahara; Country Profile : Western Sahara, from ISS; List of political parties in the Western Sahara, from Wikipedia Western Sahara Profile, from International Crisis Group

Military

Economy & Finances

Article : Economy of Western Sahara, from Wikipedia Category : Economy of Western Sahara, from Wikipedia Global Currency History : Western Sahara

Ethnography

Articles : Hassaniya, from Wikipedia Forced Migration Online Research Guide Western Sahara 2004 Refugee Camps, from Western Sahara Online People, from Western Sahara Online Refugee Studies Centre : Stories of a Nation : Historical Narratives and Visions of the Future in Sahrawi Refugee Camps 2005, from Forced Migration Online

Religion

Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : Western Sahara, from Kirken i Norge Western Sahara, from International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies - Cemetery Project

History of Regions

see Ifni Articles Cape Juby, Rio de Oro, Saguia el Hamra, from Wikipedia

History of Cities

List of Cities in the Western Sahara, from Wikipedia

Institutions

Structurae : Western Sahara; search Lighthouse Explorer for Western Sahara

Biographies

African Women Bibliographic Database

Bibliographies

Westsahara-Bibliographie, from Afrika-Handbuch, at Univ. of Vienna Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies), keywords Westsahara, Western Sahara, Spanish Sahara, Spanische Sahara (site in German, most titles listed in English; hundreds of entries; publications mostly since 1970) RHS Bibliography, search for Spanish Sahara, Rio de Oro, Western Sahara

Others

Palearctic Ecoregion, from WWF Disaster History by Country : Western Sahara, from Relief Web Crime and Society. A Comparative Criminology Tour of the World : Western Sahara, by R. Winslow

WEB-BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS

Lists of Statesmen

from World Statesmen (B. Cahoon); from Rulers (B. Schemmel) Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, from Wikipedia

Population Figures

Historical Population Statistics : Western Sahara, from Population Statistics at Univ. Utrecht

Document Collections

Online Newspapers

links from Online Newspapers, from World Newspapers

Election Results

Archives, Musea, Libraries

National Symbols

Flag, from FOTW Coat of Arms of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, from Wikipedia

Coins, Banknotes

Banknotes of the Western Sahara, from World Currency Museum Sahrawi Coins, from African Coins and Tokens

Stamps

Rio de Oro Stamps 1905-1921, from Stamps Catalogue 1840-1920 by Evert Klaseboer

Others

License Plates, from Francoplaque, from License Plates of the World

PRINTED REFERENCE

General Accounts

Historical Dictionary

Terry M. Mays, Historical Dictionary of Multinational Peacekeeping, Lanman Md. : Scarecrow 1996 [G] Tony Hodges, Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara, Metuchen N.J. : Scarecrow 1982 [G]