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The [[Battle of Río de Oro]] was a single-ship action fought in August 1914 during the First World War. A British protected cruiser attacked a [[SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse|German auxiliary cruiser]] off the small Spanish colony of Río de Oro.
In 1975, as Spain retreated from the territory, Western Sahara was split under the [[Madrid Accords]] between [[Mauritania]] and [[Morocco]], even if this division was bitterly contested by the [[Polisario Front]]. The dividing line ran halfway through Río de Oro, with Morocco taking the northern part plus Saguia el-Hamra, and Mauritania annexing the lower third of the colony as a northern province called [[Tiris al-Gharbiyya]] (Western
This area is today divided by the [[Moroccan Wall|Moroccan military berm]], with Morocco occupying the parts to the west of it, and the [[Polisario Front]]-held [[Free Zone (region)|Free Zone]], under the control of the [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]] to the east. These zones are temporary divisions negotiated as a part of the [[United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara]] (MINURSO) ceasefire.<ref>[http://www.minurso.unlb.org/monitoring.html Military Agreement No. 1]</ref>
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