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Ángel Marcos Salas
Ángel Marcos Salas (1904–1988) was a Spanish mechanic, trade unionist and militiaman who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Biography Ángel Marcos Salas was born into a working class family in Madrid, in 1904. At the age of 19, he went to work at the Madrid, Zaragoza and Alicante railway. Soon after, he became member of the railworkers' union of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT). In July 1936, after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was appointed a member of the Confederal Committee at the Madrid Atocha railway station. He later joined the Rosal Column, and went on to command a centuria within it. After the militarisation of the confederal militias, he joined the political commissariat of the Spanish Republican Army. He came to serve as commissar of the 30th, 80th and 140th Mixed Brigades, within which he fought in the Battle of the Ebro. After the end of the war he went into exile in France, where he was interned in a concentration camp A concentra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
