Search results for "Islam in Western Sahara" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the Liberian economy. Democratic elections in 2005 brought hope of a new ... Liberia is situated in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic ...23 KB (3,221 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- Forty per cent of the country is comprised of the Sahara Desert, with ... This nation gained its independence from France in 1956, becoming ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- right|250px|A thirteenth-century slave market in Yemen]] an economic commodity based on human life. In the twenty-first century, this ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- Mali, which is among the poorest countries in the world. Estimated in 2006 ... empires, a French colony until independence in 1960, and it went through 24 ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- Greeks and Romans, who explored and settled in North Africa. Fifteenth century ... but also of courage and determination in the face of geographical and ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation in West Africa. It is surrounded ... 1980s was followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s, though one ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
- From c. 6000 B.C.E., rock drawings in Africa have included representations ... determine the function of a particular work. In many tribes, the artist had ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- [[Image:Prokudin-Gorskii-18.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kazakh nomads in ... place to another, rather than settling down in one location. Nomadism is distinguished ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai ... Bedouins spread out over the pastures of the Arabian Peninsula in ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... It was inhabited in pre-colonial times by a number of ancient kingdoms ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 18:51, 21 May 2024
- Libya is a country in North Africa 90 percent of which is desert. ... peoples living west of the Nile River. In Greek, the tribesmen were called ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... caused by the conflict. Four million people in southern Sudan were displaced ...27 KB (3,989 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- Gruiformes. Cranes are distinguished readily in flight because they fly with ... 15 extant species of cranes, occur in the wild on all the continents ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 20:20, 28 May 2024
- Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a thin sliver of land in ... Togo was once part of the area known as the "Slave Coast" ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- was flourishing center of Islamic learning. In the early nineteenth century ... leaders and delegates to advise the Emperor in its governance. While Europeans ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... played an important role as a mediator in resolving disputes between ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa. The name "Senegal ... from a one-party state to a multiparty democracy in 2000. ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- was the ruler of an ancient kingdom located in the areas called Ethiopia and ... al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those from Yemen ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834 ... Many cultures in history used slaves, often putting them to work in ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan country in western Africa, named after ... control of much of the Hausa territory in the late eighteenth century. ...18 KB (2,433 words) - 21:41, 31 July 2023
