Emirate of Trarza

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Emirate of Trarza
1640–1902
Trarza ca. 1850
Capital	Mederdra, Rosso
Government	Monarchy
Emir
Historical era	Early Modern Period
• Confederation founded	1640
• Declared a French protectorate	1902
Succeeded by French West Africa

The Emirate of Trarza was a precolonial state in what is today southwest Mauritania. It has survived as a traditional confederation of semi-nomadic people to the present day. Its name is shared with the modern Region of Trarza. The population, a mixture of Berber tribes, had been there for a long time before being conquered in the 11th century by Hassaniya Arabic speakers from the north. Europeans later called these people Moors/Maures, and thus have titled this group "the Trarza Moors".