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Armorial achievement of Spain during the Francoist State, consisting of the traditional escutcheon (arms of Castile, León, Aragon, Navarre and Granada) and the Pillars of Hercules with the motto Plus Ultra, together with Francoist symbols: the motto «Una Grande Libre», the Eagle of St. John, and the yoke and arrows of the Catholic Monarchs which were also adopted by the Falangists.
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.
The name refers to the blue uniform worn by members of the militia. The colour blue was chosen for the uniforms in 1934 by the FE de las JONS because it was, according to José Antonio Primo de Rivera , "clear, whole, and proletarian ," and is the colour typically worn by workers , as the Falange sought to gain support among the Spanish working ...
This period in Spanish history, from the Nationalist victory to Franco's death, is commonly known as Francoist Spain or as the Francoist dictatorship. Born in Ferrol , Galicia, into an upper-class military family, Franco served in the Spanish Army as a cadet in the Toledo Infantry Academy from 1907 to 1910.
As a result, Spain and France agreed in May 1970 to the sale of 19 AMX-30 main battle tanks. All of these were delivered to the Spanish Legion deployed in the Spanish Sahara. [ 49 ] From 1974, Spain began to manufacture the AMX-30 (called AMX-30E ), with the production of the first batch of 180 tanks until 25 June 1979.
The visits of Latin American leaders to Franco]. Mexico. Revista de estudios Latinoamericanos [On-line]. No.54 (Jan./Jun. 2012). ISSN 2448-6914 (in Spanish). Moradiellos, Enrique (2016). "Franco, el caudillo: origen y perfil de una magistratura política carismática" [Franco, the caudillo: origin and profile of a charismatic political magistracy].
' Traditionalist Spanish Phalanx of the Councils of the National Syndicalist Offensive '; FET y de las JONS), [30] frequently shortened to just "FET", [31] was a far-right political party in Spain during the Francoist regime, during which time it was the sole legal party.
Español: Escudo del régimen de Franco version 1938-1945 según el modelo llamado "abreviado", destinado por su mayor sencillez para la simbología burocrática (Andoni Esparza Leibar, Emblemata, 12 (2006), pp. 231-274, ISSN 1137-1056.).