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THE DICTATORSHIP OF FRwidth="130"ISCO FRwidth="130"O
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Spain remained officially neutral in World Wars I and II, but suffered through a devastating Civil War (1936-1939) . During Franco's rule, Spain remained largely economically and culturally isolated from the outside world, but began to catch up econo... |
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FIRST SPANISH REPUBLIC
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Following the Hidalgo affair, Amadeus famously declared the people of Spain to be ungovernable, and fled the country. In his absence, a government of radicals and Republicans was formed that declared Spain a republic.The republic was immediately unde... |
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THE GOLDEN AGE IN SPAIN
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The Spanish Golden Age was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire (now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs (Philip III, Philip IV and Char... |
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EARLY HISTORY OF SPAIN
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The earliest record of hominids living in Europe has been found in the Spanish cave of Atapuerca; fossils found there are dated to roughly 1.2 million years ago.Modern humans in the form of Cro Magnons began arriving in the Iberian Peninsula from nor... |
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SECOND SPANISH REPUBLIC IN SPAIN
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Under the Second Spanish Republic, women were allowed to vote in general elections for the first time. The Republic devolved substantial autonomy to the Basque Country and to Catalonia.The first governments of the Republic, were center left, headed b... |
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TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY OF SPAIN
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The Spanish transition to democracy or new Bourbon restoration was the era when Spain moved from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to a liberal democratic state. The transition is usually said to have begun with Franco's death on 20 November 1975,... |
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SPAIN UNDER THE BOURBONS
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Philip V, the first Bourbon king, of French origin, signed the Decreto de Nueva Planta in 1715, a new law that revoked most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that formed the Spanish Crown, specially Crown of Aragon, un... |
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WAR OF SPANISH INDEPENDENCE IN SPAIN
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Spain initially sided against France in the Napoleonic Wars, but the defeat of her army early in the war led to Charles IV's pragmatic decision to align with the revolutionary French. Spain was put under a British blockade, and her colonies for the f... |
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THE RESTORATION IN SPAIN
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Although the former queen, Isabella II was still alive, she recognized that she was too divisive as a leader, and abdicated in 1870 in favor of her son, Alfonso, who was duly crowned Alfonso XII of Spain. After the tumult of the First Spanish Republi... |
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IMPERIAL SPAIN
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The Spanish Empire was one of the first modern global empires. It was also one of the largest empires in world history. In the 16th century Spain and Portugal were in the vanguard of European global exploration and colonial expansion and the opening ... |
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