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Battle of Bilbao
Part of the Spanish Civil War

The Northern Front. Bilbao is on the right of the red area.
LocationBiscay, Northern Spain
Result Decisive Nationalist victory
Territorial
changes		 Nationalists captures Biscay from the republicans
Belligerents
 Spanish Republic
Basque Army		  Nationalist Spain
 Italy (CTV)
Strength
50,000 troops and militia 60,000 Nationalist troops
15,000 Italian troops
Casualties and losses
Unknown Nationalist Spain: Unknown
Italy: 105 dead
427 wounded
three missing
Spanish Civil War
July 1936 uprising / Revolution
1936
1937
1938
1939

The Battle of Bilbao was part of the War in the North, during the Spanish Civil War where the Nationalist Army captured the city of Bilbao and the remaining parts of the Basque Country still held by the Republic.

Bilbao was the capital of the autonomous Basque area established by the Republic after the war began. This establishment was in payment for Basque Nationalist support of the Republic.

The Basque people in Spain generally inhabit four provinces, Navarre, Alava, Guipuzcoa and Vizcaya. The Basque Nationalists were dominant in the latter two provinces.

Navarre and Alava had rallied to the rising against the Republic.

The Spanish Nationalists troops gained Guipuzcoa early in the war with the fall of San Sebastián, September 13, 1936.

By June 11, 1937, The Basque forces had fallen back to the city of Bilbao, which was defended by a series of rushed fortifications called the "Iron Belt." The Iron Belt was poorly designed for defense and the designer of the Belt, engineer Alejandro Goicoechea, defected to the Nationalists and brought them the plans of the defenses, so that they could strike at the weakest point . The ring was breeched by an infantry assault supported by heavy artillery bombardment. On the night of June 13 the defenders evacuated most of the civilian population from the city. On June 18 General Ulibarri withdrew his remaining troops from Bilbao and the Nationalists occupied the city on the following day. The city's bridges had been destroyed to hinder the attackers but the city remained mostly intact.

Notes

  1. Gabriel Jackson, The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 (1965), p. 384
  2. Hugh Thomas, The Spanish Civil War, (2001), p. 397
  3. Gabriel Jackson, pp. 380-384.
  4. Manuel Montero García, History of Biscay (1980).

43°15′N 2°55′W / 43.250°N 2.917°W / 43.250; -2.917


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