Aguadir Island / Ergan Island

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fr.: Arguin Island

Important because of its strategic location on the island succession several colonists . The first European explorer was Portuguese Nuno Tristao in 1443 , which landed his ships and gave a description of her in the form of messages talking about the importance of control by the Portuguese Empire . In 1445 Prince Henry the sea creates a commercial point on the west coast . After that the island became a subsidiary of the Spanish Empire after the occupation of Portugal but soon became in the hands of the Dutch in 1633 after the defeat of the Spaniards in the Eighty Years ' War . Dutch and continued occupation of the island until 1678 and then abandoned for the benefit of the British who left the island after the war percent in the second to become under French control for a short duration . Then the island became a colony of the Duchy of Brandenburg and then to the Prussian Empire until 1721.(arab. version of wikipedia). Then it was controlled by local tribes and France - to the founding of the state of Mauritania.

plan of the Dutch fort of Arguin in 1721 from :