Río de Oro
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish Río de Oro (literally “Gold River”).
Proper noun
[edit]Río de Oro
- (historical) 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.