Bir Lehlou (Arabic: بير لحلو) is a small town in north-eastern Western Sahara, east of the border wall, in Polisario-held territory. Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... The sand wall of Western Sahara is an approximately 2,700 km-long defensive structure, running through Western Sahara and the southeastern portion of Morocco. ... The Polisario, Polisario Front, or Frente Polisario, from the Spanish abbreviation of Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro (Peoples Liberation Front of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro) is an army and political movement in the Western Sahara, comprising...

The Sahrawi Republic, an exiled government seated in Tindouf, Algeria, claims it as its interim capital, "as long as the Sahrawi capital of El-Aaiun is under Moroccan control. This is also from where the republic's existence was proclaimed over radio on February 27, 1976, by El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed. Todays 'Radio Nacional de la Republica Árabe Saharaui Democrática' keeps broadcasting from there on both medium and short wave, webcasting the programming in Hassaniya Arabic, French and Spanish [1]. Some sources list Bir Lehlou as El-Ouali's birthplace, although this seems far from certain. Motto: حرية ديمقراطية وحدة (Arabic) Liberty, Democracy, Unity Anthem: Yābaniy Es-Saharā  listen This map indicates the territory claimed by the SADR, viz. ... Tindouf, also written Tinduf, (Arabic: تندوف) is a city and wilaya in the west of Algeria, population 30,000. ... “Sahraoui” redirects here. ... El-Aaiún or Laâyoune (Arabic: العيون, transliterated al-`ayÅ«n), is the unofficial capital of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony now mostly controlled and occupied by Morocco. ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed (1950-1976) Sahrawi nationalist leader. ... ḤassānÄ«ya is a Bedouin dialect derived from the Arabic dialect spoken by the Beni Hassān tribes, who extended their authority over most of the Mauritanian Sahara between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. ... Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ...

The name "Bir Lehlou" is transcribed from dialectal hassaniya Arabic, and means "the beautiful well" or "spring". A standard Arabic transcription would be "bi'r al-hilwa" (بئر الحلوة). ḤassānÄ«ya is a Bedouin dialect derived from the Arabic dialect spoken by the Beni Hassān tribes, who extended their authority over most of the Mauritanian Sahara between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. ... Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ...

See also

• Politics of Western Sahara
• History of Western Sahara