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Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the three-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
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Spanish Civil War
1936–1939 civil war in Spain
The Spanish Civil War was 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 included socialists, anarchists, communists and separatists. The opposing…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Francoist Spain
Period of Spanish history (1936–1975)
Francoist Spain, also known as the Francoist dictatorship, or Nationalist Spain was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title Caudillo. After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Madrid
Capital and largest city of Spain
Madrid is the capital and most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), second only to Berlin, Germany, and its metropolitan area…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Siege of Madrid
Part of the Spanish Civil War
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)