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Word: rdoba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Government troops held Madrid, Barcelona, Toledo and most of the fertile east coast. Rebel Generalissimo Franco was stymied in the south. Seville he held, and Córdoba and Granada. He had been able to move his headquarters from Morocco to Seville, to ferry about 300 soldiers a day by plane to the mainland. But he was unable to march against Madrid, and fiery-eyed Communist militia still kept him out of Málaga. Government forces, on the other hand, were still unable to capture Zaragoza, strongest military garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Passion Flowers | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

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