The Assembly of Córdoba (also 1919 Assembly of Córdoba, etc.;

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: ''Asamblea de Córdoba de 1919'') was an

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assembly of the Junta Liberalista de Andalucía (an outgrowth of the Andalusian nationalist Centros Andaluces), which advocated the abolition of centralized political power in

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and the creation instead of a Spanish Federation. It took place January 1, 1919. The assembly adopted a federalist manifesto dubbed the ''Manifiesto de la Nacionalidad'' ("Manifesto of Nationality"), which proclaimed the necessity that

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constitute an autonomous democracy (''"democracia autónoma"'') and the arrival of the "supreme hour in which the definitive end of the old Spain" would be achieved" (''"la hora suprema en que habrá de consumarse definitivamente el acabamiento de la vieja España"''). The authors of the manifesto, among them

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and

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, took as a point of reference the

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adopted by the Federalist Assembly at

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in 1883 and the

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(1918), which had proclaimed Andalusia as a "national reality" (''"realidad nacional"'') and "a country" (''"una patria"''). The present

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of the current

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of Andalusia (adopted 2007) refers to this manifesto to justify the expression ''"realidad nacional"'', which appears in its preamble.

References

* Isabel Pedrote
El Manifiesto de Córdoba que cita el Preámbulo declara a Andalucía "separatista" del Estado
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'', 2006-10-26. Accessed online 2009-12-20.

External links

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Manifiesto andalucista de Córdoba de 1919
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