The Sometent was a parapolice institution from Catalonia. In its beginnings it was an armed corps of civilian protection, separated from the army, for...
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by the summoning of the Sometent (a civil defense organization of Andorra, made up of the heads of households). The Sometent was used sparingly against...
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United States Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 17 June 2012. "El Sometent | Tourism". Turisme.andorralavella.ad. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2012...
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economy. During the Napoleonic invasion, the volunteer troops of Manresa (sometent in Catalan language) defeated the French troops in the Bruch Pass (June...
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able-bodied men are available to fight if called upon by the sounding of the Sometent. Being a landlocked country, Andorra has no navy. Before World War I, Andorra...
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outside Barcelona, local Catalan militia, the Miquelets (also known as sometents), defeated François Xavier de Schwarz's 4,000 troops. Guillaume Philibert...
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forces, composed of militia from the neighboring villages, volunteers (sometent), and Swiss and Walloon soldiers from the Barcelona garrison (2,000 men)...
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agreements known as Sagramental, while the militia corps was known as Sometent. The feudal system allowed to lordships, institutions and corporations...
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General Chabran's vanguard was attacked and chased away by some 1,200 sometents from El Vendrell and 200 Swiss regulars. When Chabran's emissary returned...
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the suppression of the army led by General Moragues during the war, the sometent, an institution with the philosophy of national defense which despite this...
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public order and internal security in Catalonia shall be entrusted to the Sometent, and for permanent active service a corps similar to that of the Mossos...
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Baulard with 50 gendarmes and the mobilization of 200 local militias or sometent led by the Síndic Francesc Cairat. The interwar period in Andorra was characterized...
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Letanías de la Virgen (1896) Serenata [(1896)] Pater Noster (1897) Cant del sometent (1898). Lyrics: Eulalia Anzizu Rima (1898). Lyrics: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer...
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Immediately, the comarque of Conflent was subjected to a tax intended to pay the sometent français (the militia). The gabelle, a tax on salt, had been abolished...
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Raval de Lleida. In the Peninsular War, the residents of Alcarràs became sometent and fought under the orders of Colonel Baget in the Sierra de Alcubierre...
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are in time" (to stop independentism)—and the medieval Catalan militias Sometent. Somatemps has contributed to the creation of the association Catalan Civil...
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sound of the village alarm-bell (someten) they are frequently called sometents. The Miquelets were active during the Catalan secessionist revolt of 1640...
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his father was the head of a Catalan paramilitary organization called Sometent (dissolved 1978) in 1650, Councillor of the People (1652) and the head...
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safe place, a refuge for the troops. It was a place of refuge for the Sometents [ca] against the French, Carlist and Liberal troops, and was a place of...
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