Farsia

Farsia, also El Farcya; is a place with a garrison in the north east of Western Sahara, which lies within the territory administered by Morocco and belongs to the province of Smara.

Same time as the Green March of Moroccan civilians in October 1975, with the country wanted to reaffirm its territorial claim to the abandoned colony of Spain Spanish Sahara, invaded troops across the Moroccan border southward and began with the occupation of the Sahrawi settlements. On October 31, 1975, there came at Farsia as part of the Western Sahara conflict to struggles with the Sahrawi resistance movement, the Polisario Front. During the month of November settlements in the northern inland Smara Farsia, Jdiriya and Haousa were stationed 15,000 soldiers in the four. In the area of ​​landmines were laid.

As a protective measure against attacks by Polisario rebels who operated from the Algerian border area in the east, Morocco began in 1982 with the construction of the so-called Moroccan Walls. The first line of fortifications ran just east of the provincial capital city of Smara. In the following years the border was in stages moved further east and extend to the territory of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Since January 1985, the rampart running east from Farsia, as the garrison has meaning.

Farsia is halfway on the road between Smara and the Algerian oasis town of Tindouf at the origin of westward from here to the Atlantic Ocean extending Saguia el Hamra, only a temporary water-bearing Wadi.

Since 1997, the Spanish city of Girona is twinned with Farsia.