5 cèntims Vista de la Plaça d'Espanya de Sevilla

Western Sahara, 1929

Stamp issued to commemorate the Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville and the International Exhibition in Barcelona, both held in 1929. This stamp was overprinted to be brought into circulation in the colony of Spanish Sahara, constituted in 1924 through the union of the dominions of Rio de Oro and Saguia el-Hamra. In 1946 this territory became part of the colony of Spanish Western Africa, which contained the possessions of Ifni, Cap Juby and the aforementioned Spanish Sahara. In 1958 it was constituted in a Spanish province until all this territory (Western Sahara) was occupied by Morocco in 1975.