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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 , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...
Battle of Bilbao. June 12, 1937 – June 19, 1937 [99][100][101] Nationalist forces captured Bilbao and all of the remaining territory in the Basque Country. [99][100][101] Nationalist Victory. Huesca Offensive. June 12, 1937 - June 19, 1937 [102][102] Republican troops launched an offensive to capture Huesca.
History of the Spanish Civil War, by year. 1936 in the Spanish Civil War. 1937 in the Spanish Civil War. 1938–39 in the Spanish Civil War.
Battle of Teruel. The Battle of Teruel was fought in and around the city of Teruel during the Spanish Civil War between December 1937 and February 1938, during the worst Spanish winter in 20 years. [9] The battle was one of the bloodiest actions of the war, with the city changing hands several times by first falling to the Republicans and ...
30,000 wounded. 5,000 captured. The Battle of the Ebro (Spanish: Batalla del Ebro, Catalan: Batalla de l'Ebre) was the longest and largest battle of the Spanish Civil War and the greatest, in terms of manpower, logistics and material ever fought on Spanish soil. It took place between July and November 1938, with fighting mainly concentrated in ...
IR. Legislative elections were held in Spain on 16 February 1936. At stake were all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes Generales. The winners of the 1936 elections were the Popular Front, a left-wing coalition of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), Republican Left (Spain) (IR), Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), Republican Union ...
Siege of Madrid. 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.
17,400. The Battle of Guadalajara (March 8–23, 1937) saw the victory of the Spanish Republican Army (Ejército Popular Republicano, or EPR) and of the International Brigades over the Italian and Nationalist forces attempting to encircle Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. The Nationalist forces involved in the Battle of Guadalajara were ...