A limited number vinyl of " Spanish Sahara " was released on 17 April 2010, to mark the 2010 Record Store Day.
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Morocco annexed the former Spanish Sahara after Madrid abandoned it in 1975 and has developed a vast infrastructure there at great expense.
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Morocco annexed the former Spanish Sahara _ a 110, 000-square-mile ( 284, 900-square-kilometer ) territory along the Atlantic coast _ in 1975.
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From 1974, refugees from the contested Spanish Sahara started arriving to the Tindouf area, following an earlier wave from the Tindouf city.
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According to the Moroccan government, in 1958 the Moroccan Army of Liberation fought Spanish colonizers and almost liberated what was then Spanish Sahara.
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The claim to the Spanish Sahara was again popularized by the regime in the early 1970s, as Spain prepared to depart the colony.
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1975-Moroccan officials in El Aiun proclaim Morocco's annexation of the Spanish Sahara as some 5, 000 Moroccan troops march into the territory's capital.
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In 1975, Morocco annexed the former Spanish Sahara _ a 110, 000-square-mile ( 284, 900-square-kilometer ) stretch of land along the Atlantic coast.
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It forced some of the previously nomadic inhabitants of Spanish Sahara to settle in certain areas, and the rate of urbanization was increased.
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The US Department of Defence and the Spanish Army conducted extensive search operations both at sea off West Africa and in the Spanish Sahara.
