Polisario

LC control no.	n 78056791
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Polisario *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Būlīsāryū F. Po.Li.Sa.Rio F. PoLiSaRio Frente Polisário Frente Popular de Libertação de Saguia el Hamra e Rio do Ouro Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro Front for Liberation of Saquia Hamra and Rio de Oro Front Polisario Front populaire pour la libération de Saguia El Hamra et Rio de Oro Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li-Taḥrīr al-Sāqīyah al-Hamrāʼ wa-Wādī al-Dhahab Polisario Front Pūlīsāriyū بوليساريو
Associated country	Spanish Sahara Morocco Algeria
Associated place	Mauritania
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. Includes the old catalog headings: Front Polisario and Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro
Found in	Miské, A.-B. Front Polisario, c1978 (subj.) t.p. (Front polisario) p. 150 (f. 5/1973; Front populaire pour la libération de Saguia El Hamra et Rio de Oro) Miské, A. al-Būlīsāryū, 1981? (subj.) t.p. (al-Būlīsāryū) p. 114 (al-Jabhah al-Shaʻbīyah li-Taḥrīr al-Sāqīyah al-Ḥamrāʼ wa-Wādī al-Dhahab) NYT index (Polisario, Front for Liberation of Saquia Hamra and Rio de Oro) Cruz, C. B. da. Guerra do povo no Sahara Ocidental--a Frente Pol., 1977: t.p. (Frente Polisário) p. 91 (Frente Popular de Libertação de Saguia el Hamra e Rio do Ouro) Inqilāb-i Ṣaḥrā, 1984: p. 20 (Pūlīsāriyū) Statement of Madjid Abduallah, member of the Committee of Foreign Relations of the Polisario Front, during the meeting of the Subcommitte[e] on International Organizations and on Africa (of the Committee of International Relations of the House of Representatives of the United States of America - Washington), 1977: at head of title: Frente Popular para la liberacion de Saguia el Hamra et Rio de Oro; F. Po.Li.Sa.Rio) Britannica (online), May 16, 2024 (Polisario Front; political and military organization, North Africa, striving to end Moroccan control of the former Spanish territory of Western Sahara; composed largely of Sahrawis, indigenous nomadic inhabitants; began in May 1973 as an insurgency, based in Mauritania, against Spanish control; after Spain withdrew and Morocco and Mauritania partitioned Western Sahara between themselves in 1976, the Polisario Front relocated to Algeria, which provided them with bases and military aid; Mauritania made peace with the Polisario Front in 1979, but Morocco then annexed Mauritania's portion of Western Sahara; in 1991 the Polisario Front inaugurated a more democratic constitution for the Sahrawi Arabic Democratic Republic (SADR; declared by the Polisario Front one day after Spanish withdrawal in 1976), but a referendum of self-determination scheduled for 1992 was postponed indefinitely; tensions with Morocco escalated again in late 2020 and the Polisario Front announced that it would no longer abide by the 1991 United Nations peace plan)
Associated language	spa ara fre eng