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Durruti is a
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, derived from the word (). It originally referred to
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who lived in the
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far away from urban centres.


People

* Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936), Spanish anarchist revolutionary * Colette Durruti (1931–2025), Spanish-French businesswoman and activist * Pedro Durruti (1911–1937), Spanish Falangist activist * Santiago Durruti (), Spanish trade unionist and politician


Organisations

* Durruti Column, a militia column named after and led by Buenaventura Durruti * Friends of Durruti, an anarchist militant group


References

{{surname Basque-language surnames