Information About ™Lagouira |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT LAGOUIRA | |
| cities in western sahara | |
| former spanish colonies | |
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Called La Agüera when it was a short-lived Spanish colonial possession, La Agüera came into existence in 1920 , when Spain established an air base on the western side of the peninsula, just a few miles away from the French Fort Etienne (now Nouadhibou ) on the eastern side of the same peninsula. (In the 1912 Convention Of Madrid , Spain and France had agreed on a border between Mauritania and Spanish possessions that ran down the middle of the peninsula.) POSTAGE STAMPS In June 1920 , Spain issued Postage Stamp s of its existing colony Río De Oro Overprint ed "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGÜERA". These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara . The stamps of La Agüera are not rare, typically costing about one US$ either used or unused, but because of the small population (probably less than 1,000 persons) and short period of validity, non-philatelic uses on cover are likely to be hard to find. EXTERNAL LINK |
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