People's Army of Catalonia
Catalan military unit which fought in the Spanish Civil War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Civil War-era military unit. For the paramilitary group supporting Catalan independence from Spain, active from 1976 to 1980, see Catalan People's Army.
The People's Army of Catalonia (Catalan: Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya)[n. 1] was an army created by the Generalitat of Catalonia on December 6, 1936, during the Spanish Civil War. Its existence was more theoretical than real, because the original structure of the popular militias continued to exist despite the efforts of the Generalitat.[2] After the May Days it was dissolved and its structure assumed by the Spanish Republican Army, which definitively militarized the militias of Catalonia and Aragon.
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People's Army of Catalonia Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya | |
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Active | December 1936–May 1937 |
Country | Catalonia (Spain) |
Type | Army |
Role | Ground defence |
Size | 40.000 (theoretically)[1] |
Engagements | Spanish Civil War (Aragon front) |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Guillem de la Peña i Cusí José Eduardo Villalba Rubio Eduardo Medrano Rivas |
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(1936–1939) |
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