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Ángel Alcázar De Velasco
Ángel Alcázar de Velasco (Mondéjar, 1909 – Galapagar, 2001) was an apprentice bullfighter, Falangist, journalist and spy. Early life His origins are humble. He earned a degree in Philosophy from the University of Salamanca in 1932. He was a Falangist from the beginning, and was awarded with the ''Palma de Plata'' by José Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1934. During those years, he was a journalist in the Falangist press and in the newspaper ''La Nación''. He travelled as a correspondent to places like Ethiopia (during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War), where he met the German Wilhelm Oberbeil. Oberbeil was the one who introduced him to the Abwehr, a German military intelligence (information gathering) organization, in Berlin in 1935. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was a prisoner in Larrínaga, Bilbao, but he succeeded in escaping. Role in the Falange He was a convinced Falangist. He began his involvement taking part in the Asturian miners' strike of 1934 as a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guadalajara
Guadalajara ( ; ) is the capital and the most populous city in the western Mexican List of states of Mexico, state of Jalisco, as well as the most densely populated municipality in Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 8th most populous city in Mexico, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,268,642, making it the Metropolitan areas of Mexico#List of metropolitan areas in Mexico by population, third-largest metropolitan area in the country and the List of metropolitan areas in the Americas, twenty-second largest metropolitan area in the Americas. Guadalajara has the second-highest population density in Mexico with over 10,361 people per km2, surpassed only by Mexico City. Within Mexico, Guadalajara is a center of business, arts and culture, technology and tourism; as well as the economic center of the Bajío region. It usually ranks among the 100 most productive and globally competitive cities in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Faction (Spanish Civil War)
The Nationalist faction (), also Rebel faction () and Francoist faction () was a major faction in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. It was composed of a variety of Right-wing politics, right-leaning political groups that supported the Spanish Coup of July 1936 against the Second Spanish Republic and Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republican faction and sought to depose Manuel Azaña, including the Falange Española de las JONS, Falange, the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right, CEDA, and two rival monarchist claimants: the Alfonsism, Alfonsist Renovación Española and the Carlist Traditionalist Communion. In 1937, Unification Decree (Spain, 1937), all the groups were merged into the FET y de las JONS. After the death of the faction's early leaders, General Francisco Franco, one of the members of the 1936 coup, headed the Spanish nationalism, Nationalists throughout most of the war, and emerged as the Francoist Spain, dictator of Spain until his death in 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar (from the Arabic name Jabal Ṭāriq , meaning "Mountain of Tariq ibn Ziyad, Tariq") is a monolithic limestone mountain high dominating the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated near the end of a narrow -long promontory stretching due south into the Mediterranean Sea and is located within the British territory of Gibraltar. The rock is 27 km northeast of Tarifa, Spain, the southwestern tip of Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The rock serves as a fortress and contains a labyrinthine network of man-made tunnels known as the Tunnels of Gibraltar. Most of the Rock's upper area comprises a Gibraltar Nature Reserve, nature reserve which is home to about 300 Barbary macaques in Gibraltar, Barbary macaques. It is a major tourist attraction. The Rock of Gibraltar, the northern of the two historic Pillars of Hercules, was known to the Ancient Romans, Romans as ''Mons Calpe'' ("Mount Calpe"); the southern Pillar of Hercules on the African side o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Piernavieja Del Pozo
Miguel Piernavieja del Pozo (21 May 1916 – 8 June 1983) was a Spanish spy for Nazi Germany, operating in Britain during the Second World War. He was quickly spotted by the MI5, Security Services (MI5) who gave him the codename ''Pogo'' and used one of their double-agents to feed him disinformation which was relayed to the Germans. Spanish Civil War Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 21 May 1916, Piernavieja was a Falangism, Falangist who had worked for Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Spying in Britain In 1940, David Sanderson, ''The Times'', 24 October 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2015. the List of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom, Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
