Río de Oro
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Río de Oro (Spanish for "Gold River", Arabic: w d -að-ðahab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab), is, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it was originally taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century. Its name seems to come from an east-west river which was supposed to have run through it formerly. The river was thought to have largely dried out - a wadi, as the name indicates - or have disappeared underground. However, deriving from its previous name…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Río de Oro (Spanish for "Gold River", Arabic: w d -að-ðahab, often transliterated as Oued Edhahab), is, with Saguia el-Hamra, one of the two territories that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it was originally taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century. Its name seems to come from an east-west river which was supposed to have run through it formerly. The river was thought to have largely dried out - a wadi, as the name indicates - or have disappeared underground. However, deriving from its previous name Rio do Ouro Portuguese seafarers applied it to the area, although no gold had been found there, neither in the water of the narrow gulf, probably mistaken for the river itself, nor in its neighbourhood. The name might date back to those tradesmen who had got part of their merchandise paid in gold dust, in 1442, thus believing they had come across a country where gold could be found.