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The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The city, besieged from October 1936, fell to the Nationalist armies on 28 March 1939.
Ruins of Madrid's Muslim wall, built in the 9th century. The primitive urban nucleus of Madrid (Majriṭ) was founded in the late 9th century (from 852 to 886) as a citadel erected on behalf of Muhammad I, the Cordobese emir, on the relatively steep left bank of the Manzanares. [1]
1339 – Treaty of Madrid secures collaboration between Aragon and Castile; 1499 – Cardinal Cisneros founded the Complutense University. Fernando de Rojas publishes La Celestina in Madrid; 1500 – Printing press in operation. [2] 1505 – San Jerónimo el Real built. 1526 – Treaty of Madrid signed. 1537 – Casa de Cisneros built.
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: 39– 74. doi: 10.3989/arbor.2002.i673.1021. ISSN 0210-1963. Box, Zira (2012). "El cuerpo de la nación. Arquitectura, urbanismo y capitalidad en el primer franquismo (1)". Revista de Estudios Políticos. Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales. ISSN 0048-7694.
Plan of the different Walls of Madrid, published in 1847 in the Semanario Pintoresco Español. Madrid with its walls (red line) in 1831. The Walls of Madrid (Spanish: cerca de Madrid, tapia de Madrid) are the five successive sets of walls that surrounded the city of Madrid from the Middle Ages until the end of the 19th century.
The Muslim Walls of Madrid (also known as the Arab Walls of Madrid), of which some vestiges remain, are located in the Spanish capital city of Madrid. They are probably the oldest construction extant in the city. They were built in the 9th century, during the Muslim domination of the Iberian Peninsula, on a promontory next to Manzanares river.
Madrid (/ m ə ˈ d r ɪ d / ⓘ mə-DRID; Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ⓘ) [n. 1] is the capital and most populous municipality of Spain.It has almost 3.4 million [10] inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million.
The Royal Alcázar of Madrid (Spanish: Real Alcázar de Madrid) was a fortress located at the site of today's Royal Palace of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. The structure was originally built in the second half of the ninth century by the Muslims, then extended and enlarged over the centuries, particularly after 1560.