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Battle Of Mérida Pocket
The battle of the Mérida pocket, also known as the closing of the Mérida pocket ( es, Cierre de la bolsa de Mérida), was an action that took place during the Spanish Civil War in July 1938 in La Serena zone of Badajoz Province. A swift and decisive operation, it was masterminded and carried out by the Francoist military and ended up becoming a bloodbath for the Republican troops. Although it was one of the major battles in the Spanish Civil War, the relevance of the closing of Mérida pocket was eclipsed by the onset of the Battle of the Ebro which took place roughly at the same time at the other end of the Republic.Francisco Alía Miranda, Angel Ramón del Valle Calzado & Olga M. Morales Encinas, ''La guerra civil en Castilla-La Mancha, 70 años después''. p. 515 Background The Mérida pocket was the westernmost border of the Spanish Republic in 1937; protruding westwards towards Mérida, a town that had been secured by rebel forces in 1936 at the time of the Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Serena, Spain
La Serena is a comarca located in the east of province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. The main town is Castuera. It is a comarca based on a natural region which includes plains, as well as some low ranges of the Sierra Morena. The climate is continental, with strong fluctuations. It grows fine grass grazed by merino sheep that produce a renowned wool and whose milk yields a well known cheese denominated La Serena cheese, which is a protected product by its origin. The population of the territory is around 39,000 inhabitants. Municipalities The comarca contains the following municipalities: * Benquerencia de la Serena * Campanario * Capilla * Castuera * Cabeza del Buey * Esparragosa de la Serena * Higuera de la Serena * La Coronada * La Haba * Magacela * Malpartida de la Serena * Monterrubio de la Serena * Orellana la Vieja * Peñalsordo * Quintana de la Serena * Valle de la Serena * Villanueva de la Serena * Zalamea de la Serena Zalamea de la Serena is a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The Sea has played a central role in the history of Western civilization. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about , representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. The Mediterranean Sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Spanish Republican Military Equipment Of The Spanish Civil War
This is a list of military equipment of the Spanish Republicans. The Soviet Union was the main provider of Republican military equipment. Weapons * List of Spanish Civil War weapons of the Republicans Aircraft * List of aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force This is a list of aircraft used by the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish Civil War. Introduction The Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931 and very soon the republican authorities set up to reform an antiquated military st ... Ships * Spanish Civil War Republican ship classes References {{reflist Lists of military equipment, Spanish Republican military equipment of the Spanish Civil War Spanish Civil War-related lists, Republican military equipment of the Spanish Civil War Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Spanish Nationalist Military Equipment Of The Spanish Civil War
{{short description, None This is a list of all military equipment used by the nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Weapons * List of Spanish Civil War weapons of the Nationalists Aircraft * List of aircraft of Nationalist Spain in the Spanish Civil War This is a list of aircraft used by the Spanish Nationalist faction in the Spanish Civil War. The aircraft were mainly received from aid from Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Aircraft are in chronological order of adoption by the Spanish Nationalist ... Ships * List of Classes of Spanish Nationalist ships of the Spanish Civil War Spanish Nationalist military equipment Spanish Nationalist of the Spanish Civil War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Group Of Central Region Armies
The Central Region Army Group, es, Grupo de Ejércitos de la Región Central (''GERC''), was a military formation of the Spanish Republican Army during the last phase of the Spanish Civil War. It gathered the most powerful section of the republican military and would endure until the 1939 surrender. The ''GERC'' was under the command of general José Miaja Menant, the Defence of Madrid hero. History The Central Region Army Group was established on 16 April 1938 by means of an order of the general Staff of the Popular Republican Army. It sought to reorganize the Republican forces following the disastrous campaigns of the Aragon Offensive and the splitting of the Spanish Republican territory in two by the rebel faction. It was initially named "Group of Armies of the Central-Southern Zone" (''Agrupación de Ejércitos de la Zona Centro-Sur'') before being renamed as Central Region Army Group. At the time of its establishment it was composed by four armies, the Andalusian A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Prada Vaquero
Adolfo Prada Vaquero (1883–1962) was a military officer of the Spanish Army. He remained loyal to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War. In December 1936, Prada led a division in the Second Battle of the Corunna Road. In August 1937 he led an Army corps in Cantabria, and on August 29 he was appointed supreme commander of the Republican Army of the North (60,000 men), replacing General Gámir. He tried to reorganize the Republican forces and shot three brigade commanders in order to maintain discipline. However, he could not stop the Nationalist offensive against Asturias and on October 18 he fled from Asturias in order to avoid capture by the Nationalists. On 7 November 1937 he was made commander of the newly established Andalusian Army, a post he held until 14 March 1938. Following the disaster of the Battle of Merida pocket he was made commander of the Extremaduran Army on 31 July 1938, replacing Colonel Ricardo Burillo Ricardo Burillo Stholle (27 Marc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concentration Camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement rather than confinement ''after'' having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities. The word ''internment'' is also occasionally used to describe a neutral country's practice of detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment on its territory during times of war, under the Hague Convention of 1907. Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps (also known as concentration camps). The term ''concentration camp'' originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces detained Cuban civilians in camps in order to more easily combat guerrilla forces. Over the following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
109th Mixed Brigade
The 109th Mixed Brigade ( es, 109.ª Brigada Mixta),Carlos Engel, ''Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del E. P. de la República'', 1999 was a mixed brigade of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. It was formed in the spring of 1937 in Utiel with four battalions, the 433, 434, 435 and 436. This ill-fated brigade operated mostly in Extremadura and was annihilated in the Battle of Mérida pocket in 1938. Its few survivors ended up in Francoist concentration camps, where some of them would be shot. History The 109th Mixed Brigade was established on 21 March 1937 in Utiel. The first commander of the unit was Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Gil Otero, who had been Commander of the ''16th Albuera Regiment'' in Lleida at the time of the 1936 coup of the pro-Fascist generals. The commissar of the unit was Ernesto Herrero Zalagán who belonged to the Unified Socialist Youth. Very soon Gil Otero was transferred to the Levantine Army ''(Ejército de Levante)'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
91st Mixed Brigade
The 91st Mixed Brigade was a unit of the Spanish Republican Army that took part in the Spanish Civil War. Throughout the war the brigade was present on the Extremadura front, attached to the 37th Division. History The unit was created in March 1937, from troops from the 20th Mixed Brigade, as well as the "Extremadura" battalions No. 1 and No. 2, and two battalions that had been created in the Extremaduran town of Campanario. It was under the command of Juan García Pina, with the anarcho-syndicalist Germán Clemente de la Cruz as political commissar. The Brigade was integrated into the 37th Division of the VII Army Corps. Shortly after its creation, it was sent to participate in the Siege of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza, along with other republican brigades. Then she was sent to the Extremadura front, to participate in "Plan P". During the following months, Juan Bautista Gómez Ortiz and Ignacio López Montilla held command of the brigade, the 91st Brigad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Republican Army
The Spanish Republican Army ( es, Ejército de la República Española) was the main branch of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic between 1931 and 1939. It became known as People's Army of the Republic (''Ejército Popular de la República'') after it was reorganized, following the disbandment of the voluntary militias that were formed in July 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. History The Spanish Republican Army went through two clear phases during its existence: * The pre-Civil War phase, before the coup of July 1936 that would fracture the Spanish military institution *The Civil War reorganization of the forces that remained loyal to the established republican government. Background Following the loss of Spain's last colonies, Cuba and Philippines, in 1898, the country's armed forces grew disgruntled and the public's view toward them worsened. Military leaders resented the attitude of the Spanish politicians and the public opinion who unjustly bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toledo Province
Toledo is a province of central Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid, Cuenca, Ciudad Real, Badajoz, Cáceres, and Ávila. Its capital is the city of Toledo. Demography Of the province's 711,228 people (2012), only about 1/9 live in the capital, Toledo, which is also the capital of the autonomous community. The most populated municipalities in the province are Toledo and Talavera de la Reina with 83,741 and 83,303 inhabitants each (INE, 2017). The province contains 204 municipalities. The smallest municipality in Spain, Illán de Vacas, with a population of 8, is in Toledo province. See List of municipalities in Toledo. Population development The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:600 height:auto barincrement:30 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Jara (comarca)
La Jara is a ''comarca'' located in the Montes de Toledo at the western end of Toledo Province, it also includes the municipality of Anchuras, an enclave of the province of Ciudad Real, in Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The comarca's capital is Los Navalucillos, however Talavera de la Reina is an important city for local people in La Jara owing to historical ties, even though it is located outside of the comarca. This comarca has been traditionally a place of cattle rearers, with some honey production as well. Nowadays the economy has diversified and the comarca has suffered population loss. The Vía Verde de La Jara is an abandoned railway line that has been converted into a path for hikers. Municipal terms and villages Province of Toledo * Alcaudete de la Jara * Aldeanueva de Barbarroya * Aldeanueva de San Bartolomé * Belvís de la Jara * El Campillo de la Jara * Espinoso del Rey * La Estrella ** Fuentes * Las Herencias ** El Membrillo * Mohedas de la Jara * La Nava d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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