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| Battle of Bilbao | |||||
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 Nationalist Spain | ||||
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The Battle of Bilbao was part of the War in the North, in the Spanish Civil War where the Nationalist Army conquered Bilbao and the part 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. Not all Basques supported the Basque Nationalists, however.
The Basque peeople generally inhabit four provinces, Navarre, Alava, Guipuzcoa and Vizcaya. The Bassque Nationalists were only dominant in the latter two provinces.
Navarre and Alava had rallied to the rising against the Republic.
Guipuzcoa had fallen to the Nationalists early in the war in 1936.
The Basque Nationalist forces were reduced to the province of Vizcaya and its capital, Bilbao. Bilbao was defended by a series of fortifications called the "Iron Ring." Unfortunately, the Iron Ring was poorly designed for defense.
Notes
- Gabriel Jackson, The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 (1965), p. 384
- Gabriel Jackson, pp. 380-384.