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Francisco Franco
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  • The last remaining statue of Franco is taken down
    The last remaining statue of Franco is taken down
    Source: AFP
  • The last remaining statue of Franco is taken down
    The last remaining statue of Franco is taken down
    Source: AFP
  • The last remaining statue of Franco is taken down
    The last remaining statue of Franco is taken down
    Source: AFP
  • Martin Amis was speaking at the Hay Festival Alhambra in the Spanish city of Granada
    Martin Amis was speaking at the Hay Festival Alhambra in the Spanish ...
    Source: AFP
  • Dignitaries gather at the mausoleum near Madrid where General Francisco Franco is buried
    Dignitaries gather at the mausoleum near Madrid where General ...
    Source: AFP
  • The Valley of the Fallen memorial was built by 15,000 political prisoners
    The Valley of the Fallen memorial was built by 15,000 political ...
    Source: AFP
The last remaining statue of Franco is taken down
Francisco Franco's Biography

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 in Ferrol – 20 November 1975 in Madrid), commonly known as Francisco Franco (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko]), or simply Franco, was a military general and dictator of Spain from October 1936, and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in 1975. Franco used the title Caudillo de España, por la gracia de Dios from 1936 onwards, meaning, Leader of Spain, by the grace of God. During his almost forty year reign, Franco's governance went through various different phases, although the most common ideological features present throughout included a strong sense of Spanish nationalism and protection of the country's territorial integrity, Catholicism, anti-communism and traditional values.

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    Granada : Spain | 26 days ago

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  • Republican victims in Franco's mausoleum to be identified

    Madrid : Spain | about 1 month ago

    Some 40,000 unidentified remains of Civil War victims are believed to lie in the Valley of the Fallen A parliamentary commission in Congress has approved carrying out a census of the tens of thousands ...

Francisco Franco News Stories

  • News Source: Isthmus | 3 days ago
    La Pasionaria of today’s Left, lights this sputtering candle at Kailin’s shrine:\n \n \n \n Kailin, who died recently at 95, was one of the first Americans to take up arms against the fascist forces that swept across Europe in the years before
  • News Source: Salon | 10 days ago
    He refers to the self-appointed generalissimo who cast such a long shadow across 20th-century Spain only as "the dictator." Yet there will always be a strange historical linkage between the two men. It was Franco's death 34 years ago that began to
  • News Source: Taiwan News | 13 days ago
    With Saint Joan of Arc standing by, Charles VII is crowned king of France in Reims, a day after the English-held town surrenders. The French defeat the English at the battle of Castillon, ending the Hundred Years' War, with Calais the only English

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  • Blog Source: mbouffant.blogspot.com | 2 days ago
    In 1975, after nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain's General Francisco Franco died, two weeks before his 83rd birthday. In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament. ...
  • Blog Source: todaysthedayquiz.blogspot.com | 2 days ago
    Who married Mick Jagger (right) today in 1990? Who announced his invention of the phonograph today in 1877? Yesterday's Answers: 1. General Francisco Franco; 2. Astronomer; 3. Windsor Castle. Posted by Pete's Quiz at 00:01 ...
  • Blog Source: nwrepublican.blogspot.com | 2 days ago
    ... Hu Yaobang (1915), Robert Byrd (1917), Joe Biden (1942); d: Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1910), Henry Hyndman (1921), Buenaventura Durruti (1936), Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1938), Francisco Franco (1975), Richard Cordtz (2006) ...

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