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Francisco Franco

ruler of Spain
Also known as: El Caudillo, Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde(Show More)
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Stanley G. Payne
Hilldale-Jaume Vicens Vives Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of The Franco Regime, 1936–75 and others.
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Francisco Franco (born December 4, 1892, El Ferrol, Spain—died November 20, 1975, Madrid) was a general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975. Franco was born at the coastal city and naval centre of El Ferrol in Galicia (northwestern Spain). His family life...

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