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17
Juli
1936

A military revolt launched from Spanish Morocco sparks civil war

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📅 17 Juli 1936 📍 Marokko, Spanje

Generals leading a coup against Spain's elected Republic began the rebellion in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco before expanding it to the peninsula. The colonial army included Moroccan troops whose recruitment and deployment had grown through Spain's violent rule in North Africa. This history places the colony at the origin of the European civil war and highlights the exploitation of Moroccan soldiers in a conflict framed mainly as Spanish.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Francisco Franco

Moroccan Regulares

Spanish Republican and rebel forces

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Spanish Army of Africa

Spanish Second Republic

Spanish Protectorate in Morocco