English Explanatory Dictionary

Río de Oro

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. One of the two territories (the other being Saguia el-Hamra) that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it had been taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century.

Word forms

Río de Oro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Río de Oro (literally “Gold River”).

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