The Madrid Defense Council (Spanish: Junta de Defensa de Madrid) was an ad-hoc governing body that ran Madrid, Spain, for about six months during the...

November 1936, he was named commander of the Junta de Defensa de Madrid (Madrid Defense Council), when the government evacuated the capital before the imminent...

Youth. For several months in 1936–1937, he was a member of the Madrid Defense Council in charge of public order. He was ruthless in weeding out sabotage...

Civil War (1936–39) he was briefly in charge of Supplies for the Madrid Defense Council, before being shot and badly wounded at an Anarchist roadblock....

Councillor for Public Order in the Defence Council of Madrid, which was given supreme power in besieged Madrid, after the government left the city. During...

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resistance against the coup. The slogan was to become synonymous with the defense of Madrid and the Republican cause in general. General Joaquín Fanjul, the commander...

York City. 1936 – Spanish Civil War: The Madrid Defense Council is formed to coordinate the Defense of Madrid against nationalist forces. 1940 – In Tacoma...

from 26 January 1939 – 9 June 1979) Madrid Defense Council (7 November 1936 – 23 April 1937) Interprovincial Council of Santander, Palencia and Burgos (8...

The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead. 1943 – World War II: The...

meeting is solely consultative. Meetings of the Council of Ministers are held at the Council Building in Madrid. It is located at the Moncloa Palace complex...

The Community of Madrid (Spanish: Comunidad de Madrid [komuniˈðað ðe maˈðɾið] ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located...

a broadcast on Madrid radio in which he explained what was being done. He quoted the communication from the National Defense Council to the Nationalist...

Security in the Madrid Defense Council. Other key posts in this department were held by Luis Rodríguez Cuesta (secretary of the Council), Federico Melchor...

with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. The Madrid Defense Council was formed. Father Charles Coughlin announced that he was withdrawing...

José Miaja for participation of the Communists in Madrid Defense Council (Junta de Defensa de Madrid). This consisted of three ministries, War, Supplies...

Regional Defense Councils linked in a federated way to a National Defense Council, following the directives proposed on September 15, 1936 in Madrid by the...

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to leave Madrid and move to Valencia, entrusting the defense of the city to General José Miaja, who would establish the Madrid Defense Council. According...

Workers union. The Madrid Defense Council (Junta de Defensa de Madrid), formed by the Second Spanish Republic to administer Madrid in November after the...

denounced the Soviet Union for preventing them from joining the Madrid Defense Council. On 13 December 1936 Comorera said, "the POUM has initiated a shameful...

The 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known in Spain as 11M) were a series of coordinated, nearly simultaneous bombings against the Cercanías commuter train...

dissolved on 23 April 1937. The Madrid defense industry was organized mainly due to his efforts. After the Defense Council was dissolved he represented the...

of Madrid, became a member of the PCE central committee in 1937, and joined the Politburo in 1938. On 2 December 1936 the Madrid Defense Council was...

would have had almost total control over the Madrid Checa. In November 1936, he joined the Madrid Defense Council, occupying the Ministry of War Industries...

history of Madrid dates to the 9th century, even though the area has been inhabited since the Stone Age. The primitive nucleus of Madrid, a walled military...

The Defense Attaché System is an arm of the Defense Intelligence Agency tasked with representing the United States in defense and military related matters...

Security in the Madrid Defense Council. Other key posts in Carrillo's department were held by Luis Rodríguez Cuesta (secretary of the Council), Segundo Serrano...

The Defense Council (Catalan: Conselleria de Defensa) was a ministry created by the Generalitat de Catalunya on August 2, 1936, and that existed during...

grandfather, King Juan Carlos I, in the Ruber International Hospital in Madrid using a caesarean section necessitated by non-progression of labour. As...