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Date: 17 July 1936 – 1 April 1939 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)
Location: Spain
Result: Nationalist victory
End of the Second Spanish Republic
Establishment of the Spanish State under the rule of Francisco Franco
Belligerents
Loyalists
Ejército Popular
Popular Front (Frente Popular)
CNT-FAI
UGT
Generalitat de Catalunya
Euzko Gudarostea
International Brigades
Supported by:
Soviet Union
Mexico
France (1936)
Foreign volunteers
Nationalists
FET y de las JONS
FE de las JONS
Requetés
CEDA
Renovacion española
Army of Africa
Kingdom of Italy
Nazi Germany
Supported by:
Portugal
Vatican City (Diplomatic)
Foreign volunteers
Commanders and leaders
Loyalist leaders
Second Spanish Republic Manuel Azaña
Second Spanish Republic Julián Besteiro
Second Spanish Republic Francisco Largo Caballero
Second Spanish Republic Juan Negrín
Second Spanish Republic Indalecio Prieto
Second Spanish Republic Vicente Rojo Lluch
Second Spanish Republic José Miaja
Second Spanish Republic Juan Modesto
Second Spanish Republic Juan Hernández Saravia
Second Spanish Republic Carlos Romero Giménez
Second Spanish Republic Buenaventura Durruti
Second Spanish Republic Lluís Companys
Second Spanish Republic
Basque Country (autonomous community) José Antonio Aguirre
Nationalist leaders
Spain José Sanjurjo
Spain Emilio Mola
Spain Francisco Franco
Spain Gonzalo Queipo de Llano
Spain Juan Yagüe
Spain Miguel Cabanellas
Spain Fidel Dávila Arrondo
Spain Manuel Goded Llopis
Spain Manuel Hedilla
Spain Manuel Fal Conde
Strength
Loyalists 1936 strength:
800,000+ combatants 31 ships 12 submarines 13,000 Sailors
1938 strength:
450,000 infantry 350 aircraft 200 tanks 59,380 international volunteers 3,015 Soviet technicians 772 Soviet pilots
Nationalists 1936 strength:
58,000 Army 68,500 Gendarmes 16 operational ships 7,000 Sailors
1938 strength:
600,000 infantry 600 aircraft 290 tanks 78,500 Italian troops 19,000 German troops 8,000 Portuguese troops
Casualties and losses
Loyalists 175,000 killed in action 100–130,000 civilians killed inside the Francoist zone
Nationalists 110,000 killed in action 50,000 civilians killed inside the Republican zone
149,213–2,000,000 total killed