en.unionpedia.org

Green March, the Glossary

Index Green March

The Green March was a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government and military, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan province of Spanish Sahara to Morocco.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 79 relations: Advisory opinion on Western Sahara, Ahmed Osman (politician), Alcalde, Algeria, Algiers, Angola, Annexation, Bou Craa, Carlos Arias Navarro, Carnation Revolution, Caudillo, Ceasefire, Ceuta, Colonization, Decolonisation of Africa, Demographics of Morocco, El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, Equatorial Guinea, Estado Novo (Portugal), Flag of Morocco, France 24, Francisco Franco, Francoist Spain, Greater Morocco, Green, Guerrilla warfare, Hassan I of Morocco, Hassan II of Morocco, History of Western Sahara, International Court of Justice, Islam, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Juan Carlos I, La Güera, Laayoune, List of rulers of Morocco, List of Spanish colonial wars in Morocco, Madrid Accords, Mauritania, Melilla, Military occupation, Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, Morocco, Morocco–Spain border, Morocco–United Kingdom relations, Morocco–Western Sahara border, Mozambique, Nouadhibou, Organisation of African Unity, Pedro Cortina Mauri, ... Expand index (29 more) »

  2. 1975 in Morocco
  3. 1975 in Spanish Sahara
  4. 1975 protests
  5. Morocco–Spain relations
  6. November 1975 events in Africa
  7. Politically motivated migrations
  8. Settlement schemes in Africa
  9. Western Sahara conflict

Advisory opinion on Western Sahara

The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara was a 1975 advisory, non-binding opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of two questions presented to it by the UN General Assembly under Resolution 3292 regarding the disputed territory of Western Sahara (then Spanish Sahara). Green March and advisory opinion on Western Sahara are 1975 in Morocco and 1975 in Spanish Sahara.

See Green March and Advisory opinion on Western Sahara

Ahmed Osman (politician)

Ahmed Osman (أحمد عصمان; born 3 January 1930) is a Moroccan politician who served as the Prime Minister of Morocco between 2 November 1972, and 22 March 1979.

See Green March and Ahmed Osman (politician)

Alcalde

Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions.

See Green March and Alcalde

Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

See Green March and Algeria

Algiers

Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.

See Green March and Algiers

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

See Green March and Angola

Annexation

Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory.

See Green March and Annexation

Bou Craa

Bou Craa (also transliterated as Bo Craa, Bu Craa or Boukra) (بوكراع, Berber: ⴱⵓⴽⵔⴰⵄ, Bucraa) is a town in Western Sahara, south-east of the main city of El Aaiún.

See Green March and Bou Craa

Carlos Arias Navarro

Carlos Arias Navarro, 1st Marquess of Arias Navarro (11 December 1908 – 27 November 1989) was the prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.

See Green March and Carlos Arias Navarro

Carnation Revolution

The Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (25 de Abril), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo Revolucionário Em Curso.

See Green March and Carnation Revolution

Caudillo

A caudillo (cabdillo, from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput "head") is a type of personalist leader wielding military and political power.

See Green March and Caudillo

Ceasefire

A ceasefire (also known as a truce or armistice), also spelled cease fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions, often due to mediation by a third party.

See Green March and Ceasefire

Ceuta

Ceuta (Sabta; Sabtah) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast.

See Green March and Ceuta

Colonization

independence. Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by colonialism.

See Green March and Colonization

Decolonisation of Africa

The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War.

See Green March and Decolonisation of Africa

Demographics of Morocco

Demographic features of the population of Morocco include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

See Green March and Demographics of Morocco

El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed

El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed (also known as El Uali, El-Wali, Luali or Lulei; الوالي مصطفى السيد; 1949 – 9 June 1976) was a Sahrawi nationalist leader, co-founder and second Secretary-General of the Polisario Front.

See Green March and El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial; Guinée équatoriale; Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of.

See Green March and Equatorial Guinea

Estado Novo (Portugal)

The Estado Novo was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933.

See Green March and Estado Novo (Portugal)

Flag of Morocco

The flag of Morocco (علمالمغرب) is the flag used by the government of Morocco and has served as the national flag of Morocco since 17 November 1915.

See Green March and Flag of Morocco

France 24

France 24 (vingt-quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris.

See Green March and France 24

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.

See Green March and Francisco Franco

Francoist Spain

Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo.

See Green March and Francoist Spain

Greater Morocco

Greater Morocco is a label historically used by some Moroccan nationalist political leaders protesting against Spanish, Portuguese and French rule, to refer to wider territories historically associated with the Moroccan sultan.

See Green March and Greater Morocco

Green

Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.

See Green March and Green

Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

See Green March and Guerrilla warfare

Hassan I of Morocco

Mawlay Hassan bin Mohammed (translit), known as Hassan I (translit), born in 1836 in Fes and died on 9 June 1894 in Tadla, was a sultan of Morocco from 12 September 1873 to 7 June 1894, as a ruler of the 'Alawi dynasty.

See Green March and Hassan I of Morocco

Hassan II of Morocco

Hassan II (translit; 9 July 1929 – 23 July 1999) was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999.

See Green March and Hassan II of Morocco

History of Western Sahara

The history of Western Sahara can be traced back to the times of Carthaginian explorer Hanno the Navigator in the 5th century BC.

See Green March and History of Western Sahara

International Court of Justice

The International Court of Justice (ICJ; Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.

See Green March and International Court of Justice

Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

See Green March and Islam

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

See Green March and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 November 1975 until his abdication on 19 June 2014.

See Green March and Juan Carlos I

La Güera

La Güera (الڭويرة al-Gūwayra; also known as La Agüera, Lagouira, El Gouera) is a ghost town on the Atlantic coast at the southern tip of Western Sahara, on the western side of the Ras Nouadhibou peninsula which is split in two by the Mauritania–Western Sahara border, west of Nouadhibou.

See Green March and La Güera

Laayoune

Laayoune or El Aaiún is the largest city of the disputed territory named Western Sahara, with a population of 271,344 in 2023.

See Green March and Laayoune

List of rulers of Morocco

This is the list of rulers of Morocco since 789.

See Green March and List of rulers of Morocco

List of Spanish colonial wars in Morocco

Moroccan–Spanish conflicts. Green March and List of Spanish colonial wars in Morocco are Morocco–Spain relations.

See Green March and List of Spanish colonial wars in Morocco

Madrid Accords

The Madrid Accords, formally the Declaration of Principles on Western Sahara, was a treaty between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania setting out six principles which would end the Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara and arrange a temporary administration in the area pending a referendum. Green March and Madrid Accords are 1975 in Morocco and Morocco–Spain relations.

See Green March and Madrid Accords

Mauritania

Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.

See Green March and Mauritania

Melilla

Melilla (script) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast.

See Green March and Melilla

Military occupation

Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory.

See Green March and Military occupation

Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship

The Moroccan–American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, also known as the Treaty of Marrakesh, was a bilateral agreement signed in 1786 that established diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and Morocco.

See Green March and Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship

Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

See Green March and Morocco

Morocco–Spain border

The Morocco–Spain land border consists of three non-contiguous lines totalling 18.5 km (11.5 miles) around the Spanish territories of Ceuta (8 km; 5 miles), Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (75 metres; 80 yards) and Melilla (10.5 km; 6½ miles). Green March and Morocco–Spain border are Morocco–Spain relations.

See Green March and Morocco–Spain border

Morocco–United Kingdom relations

Morocco–United Kingdom relations are the bilateral relations that exist between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United Kingdom.

See Green March and Morocco–United Kingdom relations

Morocco–Western Sahara border

The Morocco–Western Sahara border is in length and runs from Atlantic Ocean in the west, to the tripoint with Algeria in the east.

See Green March and Morocco–Western Sahara border

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

See Green March and Mozambique

Nouadhibou

Nouadhibou (Nwādībū, Berber: Nwadibu, formerly in French: Port-Étienne) is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as a major commercial center.

See Green March and Nouadhibou

Organisation of African Unity

The Organisation of African Unity (OAU; Organisation de l'unité africaine, OUA) was an intergovernmental organization established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with 33 signatory governments.

See Green March and Organisation of African Unity

Pedro Cortina Mauri

Pedro Cortina y Mauri (18 March 1908 in La Pobla de Segur – 14 February 1993 in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and diplomat who served as the last Minister of Foreign Affairs under Francisco Franco between 1970 and 1975 and the first one with democracy until 1980.

See Green March and Pedro Cortina Mauri

Pedro Sánchez

Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018.

See Green March and Pedro Sánchez

Phosphate

In chemistry, a phosphate is an anion, salt, functional group or ester derived from a phosphoric acid.

See Green March and Phosphate

Polisario Front

The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, Frelisario or simply Polisario (from the Spanish acronym of Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro), is a rebel Sahrawi nationalist liberation movement claiming Western Sahara. Green March and Polisario Front are western Sahara conflict.

See Green March and Polisario Front

Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

See Green March and Portugal

Qadi

A qāḍī (Qāḍī; otherwise transliterated as qazi, kadi, kadhi, kazi, or gazi) is the magistrate or judge of a sharīʿa court, who also exercises extrajudicial functions such as mediation, guardianship over orphans and minors, and supervision and audition of public works.

See Green March and Qadi

Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

See Green March and Quran

Río de Oro

Río de Oro (Spanish for "River of Gold";, Wādī-aḏ-Ḏāhab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab) was, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it had been taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century.

See Green March and Río de Oro

Referendum

A referendum (referendums or less commonly referenda) is a direct vote by the electorate on a proposal, law, or political issue.

See Green March and Referendum

Royal Moroccan Army

The Royal Moroccan Army (القوات البرية الملكية المغربية Al-Quwwat al-Bariyah al-Malakiyah al-Maghribiyah, ⵜⴰⵙⵔⴷⴰⵙⵜ ⵜⴰⴳⵍⴷⴰⵏⵜ tasrdast tagldant) is the branch of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations.

See Green March and Royal Moroccan Army

Saguia el-Hamra

Saguia el-Hamra (Saguía el Hamra, translit) was, with Río de Oro, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969.

See Green March and Saguia el-Hamra

Sahrawis

The Sahrawis, or Sahrawi people (صحراويون), are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Sahara desert, which includes the Western Sahara, southern Morocco, much of Mauritania, and along the southwestern border of Algeria.

See Green March and Sahrawis

Self-determination

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

See Green March and Self-determination

Settlement Plan

The Settlement Plan was an agreement between the ethnically Saharawi Polisario Front and Morocco on the organization of a referendum, which would constitute an expression of self-determination for the people of Western Sahara, leading either to full independence, or integration with the Kingdom of Morocco.

See Green March and Settlement Plan

Southern Provinces

The Southern Provinces or Moroccan Sahara are the terms utilized by the Moroccan government to refer to the occupied territory of Western Sahara.

See Green March and Southern Provinces

Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

See Green March and Spain

Spanish Armed Forces

The Spanish Armed Forces are in charge of guaranteeing the sovereignty and independence of the Kingdom of Spain, defending its territorial integrity and the constitutional order, according to the functions entrusted to them by the Constitution of 1978.

See Green March and Spanish Armed Forces

Spanish Legion

For centuries, Spain recruited foreign soldiers to its army, forming the foreign regiments (Infantería de línea extranjera) such as the Regiment of Hibernia (formed in 1709 from Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight of the Earls and the penal laws).

See Green March and Spanish Legion

Spanish Sahara

Spanish Sahara (Sahara Español; As-Sahrā'a Al-Isbānīyah), officially the Spanish Possessions in the Sahara from 1884 to 1958, then Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was occupied and ruled by Spain between 1884 and 1976. Green March and Spanish Sahara are Morocco–Spain relations.

See Green March and Spanish Sahara

Tarfaya

Tarfaya (طرفاية - Ṭarfāya; ⵟⵔⴼⴰⵢⴰ) is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic coast.

See Green March and Tarfaya

Tax

A tax is a mandatory financial charge or some other type of levy imposed on a taxpayer (an individual or legal entity) by a governmental organization to collectively fund government spending, public expenditures, or as a way to regulate and reduce negative externalities.

See Green March and Tax

Tiris al-Gharbiyya

Tiris al-Gharbiyya (translit) was the name for the area of Western Sahara under Mauritanian control between 1975 and 1979.

See Green March and Tiris al-Gharbiyya

Trinidad Jiménez

Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera (born 4 June 1962) is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician and was Spain's Foreign Affairs Minister.

See Green March and Trinidad Jiménez

Tropas Nómadas

The Tropas Nómadas (Nomad Troops) were an auxiliary regiment to the colonial army in Spanish Sahara (today Western Sahara), from the 1930s until the end of the Spanish presence in the territory in 1975.

See Green March and Tropas Nómadas

United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (بعثة الأممالمتحدة لتنظيماستفتاء في الصحراء الغربية; Mission des Nations Unies pour l'Organisation d'un Référendum au Sahara Occidental; Misión de las Naciones Unidas para la Organización de un Referéndum en el Sáhara Occidental; MINURSO) is the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, established in 1991 under United Nations Security Council Resolution 690 as part of the Settlement Plan, which had paved way for a cease-fire in the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front (representing the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) over the contested territory of Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).

See Green March and United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

United Nations Security Council Resolution 380

United Nations Security Council Resolution 380, adopted on November 6, 1975, gravely noted that the situation in Western Sahara had seriously deteriorated.

See Green March and United Nations Security Council Resolution 380

Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal

The Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal is an initiative proposed by Morocco in 2006 as a possible solution to the Western Sahara conflict.

See Green March and Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal

Western Sahara conflict

The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic/Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco.

See Green March and Western Sahara conflict

Western Sahara War

The Western Sahara War (حرب الصحراء الغربية, Guerre du Sahara occidental, Guerra del Sáhara Occidental) was an armed struggle between the Sahrawi indigenous Polisario Front and Morocco from 1975 to 1991 (and Mauritania from 1975 to 1979), being the most significant phase of the Western Sahara conflict. Green March and Western Sahara War are western Sahara conflict.

See Green March and Western Sahara War

1975 United Nations visiting mission to Spanish Sahara

To assist in the decolonization process of the Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara), a colony in North Africa, the United Nations General Assembly in 1975 dispatched a visiting mission to the territory and the surrounding countries, in accordance with its resolution 3292 (December 13, 1974). Green March and 1975 United Nations visiting mission to Spanish Sahara are 1975 in Spanish Sahara.

See Green March and 1975 United Nations visiting mission to Spanish Sahara

See also

1975 in Morocco

1975 in Spanish Sahara

1975 protests

Morocco–Spain relations

November 1975 events in Africa

Politically motivated migrations

Settlement schemes in Africa

Western Sahara conflict

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_March

Also known as Green March (1975).

, Pedro Sánchez, Phosphate, Polisario Front, Portugal, Qadi, Quran, Río de Oro, Referendum, Royal Moroccan Army, Saguia el-Hamra, Sahrawis, Self-determination, Settlement Plan, Southern Provinces, Spain, Spanish Armed Forces, Spanish Legion, Spanish Sahara, Tarfaya, Tax, Tiris al-Gharbiyya, Trinidad Jiménez, Tropas Nómadas, United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, United Nations Security Council Resolution 380, Western Sahara Autonomy Proposal, Western Sahara conflict, Western Sahara War, 1975 United Nations visiting mission to Spanish Sahara.