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The Civil War in Spain started in 1936, during which thousands of churches were destroyed and thirteen bishops and some 7000 clergy and religious Spaniards were assassinated. [7] Another estimate is that in the course of the Red Terror, 6,832 members of the Catholic clergy were killed. [ 8 ]
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic . [ 10 ]
English: General map of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Key . Initial Rebel zone - July 1936 . Rebel advance until September 1936 . Rebel advance until October 1937 .
Francoist Spain (Spanish: España franquista), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (dictadura franquista), was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo. Two days after his death in 1975 due to heart failure, Spain transitioned into a democracy.
NKVD General Pavel Sudoplatov, an ethnic Ukrainian who was later the main handler for his Spanish Civil War colleagues Nahum Eitingon and Ramón Mercader's during the assassination of Leon Trotsky, later recalled, "From 1936 to 1939 there were two life-and-death struggles in Spain, both of them civil wars. One pitted nationalist forces let by ...
[40] [39] A generation later the armies of King Philip II of Spain defeated those of Pope Paul IV in the Italian War of 1551–1559, fought to prevent growing Spanish dominance in Italy. [41] This period saw a gradual revival of the pope's temporal power in the Papal States.
The Battle for Spain; The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. London: Penguin books. ISBN 0-14-303765-X. Espinosa, Francisco. (2003). La columna de la muerte. El avance del ejército franquista de Sevilla a Badajoz.. Editorial Crítica. Barcelona. ISBN 84-8432-431-1; Graham Helen. (2005). The Spanish Civil War. A very short introduction. Oxford ...
Detail of the Cantiga #63 (13th century), which deals with a late 10th-century battle in San Esteban de Gormaz involving the troops of Count García and Almanzor. [1]The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for ' reconquest ') [a] or the reconquest of al-Andalus [b] was a series of military and cultural campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the ...