Farsia
Farsia , also El Farcya; is a place with a garrison in the northeast of the Western Sahara , which lies within the territory administered by Morocco and belongs to the province of Smara .
At the same time as the Green March of Moroccan civilians in October 1975, with which the country wanted to reaffirm its territorial claim to the Spanish Sahara colony, which Spain had abandoned , troops advanced south across the Moroccan border and began occupying the Sahrawi settlements. On October 31, 1975, Farsia broke out in the context of the Western Sahara conflict with the Sahrawi resistance movement Frente Polisario . During the month of November, a total of 15,000 soldiers were stationed in the four settlements in the northern interior of the country, Smara, Farsia, Jdiriya and Haousa. Landmines have also been laid in the area.
As a protective measure against attacks by Polisario rebels operating from the Algerian border area in the east, Morocco began building the so-called Moroccan Wall in 1982 . The first line of fortification ran just east of the provincial capital Smara . In the following years the border was gradually moved further east and thus extended to the area of the Democratic Arab Republic of the Sahara . Since January 1985 the protective wall runs east of Farsia, which is important as a garrison place.
Farsia is halfway on the road between Smara and the Algerian oasis town of Tindouf at the origin of the Saguia el Hamra , a wadi that only occasionally carries water, which runs west to the Atlantic from here .
The Spanish city of Girona has been Farsia's twin town since 1997 .
Individual evidence
- ^ János Besenyö: Western Sahara. (PDF; 3.5 MB) IDR Research, Publicon Publishers, Budapest 2009, p. 97
Coordinates: 27 ° 9 ′ N , 10 ° 58 ′ W