FERROL, EL

ĕl fārôlˈ, city (1990 pop. 86,272), A Coruña prov., NW Spain, in Galicia. The naval base on the Atlantic was built in the 18th cent. and is one of the most important in Spain. Shipbuilding and ironworks are the main industries. Francisco Franco, El Caudillo, was born there, and from 1939 to the early 1980s it was known as El Ferrol del Caudillo.

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books on: Ferrol El  - 92 results

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A Geography of Spain and Portugal
Book by Ruth Way, Margaret Simmons; Methuen, 1962
Subjects: Portugal--Description And Travel--1951-, Spain--Description And Travel
...298 , 301 Fayon, 26 , 292 Felanitx, 245 , 246 Felguera La , 163 , 168 , 174 Feria, 152 Fernando Po, 326 - 7 Ferrol El Ferrol del Caudillo , 38 , 168 , 195 , 196 Figols, 163 , 230 Figuera da Foz, 311 , 312 , 313 Fish, 70 , 144 et seq...
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Ambivalent Embrace: America's Troubled Relations with Spain from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War
Book by Rodrigo Botero; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Spain--Relations--United States, United States--Relations--Spain
...Referentes a la Escuadra de Operaciones de las Antillas El Ferrol: El Correo Gallego, 1900 , 30 84. This collection contains...Alvaro Figueroa y Torres, Conde de Romanones, Sagasta o el Politico Madrid: EspasaCalpe, 1930 , 191 192. Canalejas...
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The Federal Republic in Spain: Pi Y Margall and the Federal Republican Movement, 1868-74
Book by C. A. M. Hennessy; Clarendon Press, 1962
Subjects: Pi y Margall, Francisco--1824-1901, Spain--Politics and government--1868-1875
...136 , 137 . Ferrari, G., 89 . Ferrer, General, 188 . Ferrol, El, 53 , 133 , 164 . Feuerbach, L., 79 . Figueras, 65...212 and note. Hijos de Padilla, Los , 94 . Hispalense, El, 99 . Historia de Cataluna 1859 , 64 . Historia de la Pintura...
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Spain, 1808-1975
Book by Raymond Carr; Clarendon Press, 1982
Subjects: Spain--History--19th Century, Spain--History--20th Century
...Eza, vizconde de, conservative agrarian reformer: his El problema agrario and the problems of Andalusia, 419 n...468 ; his execution and subsequent agitation, 485 , 493 . Ferrol, El, Republican revolt in, 323 , 325 . Fertilizers, chemical...
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Anglo-American Relations and the Franco Question, 1945-1955
Book by Jill Edwards; Oxford University, 1999
Subjects: Franco, Francisco--1892-1975, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--Spain, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, Spain--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, Spain--Foreign Relations--United States, Spain--Politics And Government--1939-1975, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1989, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, United States--Foreign Relations--Spain
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI 141 -2 Fernando Po 120 Ferrol, El 49 Fish, Hamilton US senator 41 Fisher, Geoffrey Archbishop of Canterbury 116 Fiztpatrick, John 231 Food and Agriculture Organization...
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Defying the Past in Post-Franco Spain: The Interrogation of Aurora Rodriguez
Journal article by Maria Van Liew; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 36, 2003
Subjects: Caballeira, Aurora Rodriguez--Attitudes, Caballeira, Hildegart--Attitudes, Filicide--Usage, Revolutionists--Attitudes
...He explains that Aurora, born in El Ferrol in 1880 in a typical bourgeois household...time, she began to write articles for El Socialista and was elected vice-president...Rendueles in his 1989 work entitled El Manuscrito encontrado en Ciempozuelos...
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The Syndicalist Encounter with Bolshevism
Journal article by Reiner Tosstorff; Anarchist Studies, Vol. 17, 2009
Subjects: Anarchism, Marxism, Politics
...taken place since the first gathering, which took place in London in 1913 (if one discounts the consultation in Spanish El Ferrol in 191 5, which was, in any case, not representative). The sending of delegates by two syndicalist organisations...
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A Tale of Two Identities: Spanish Intercultural Dialogue in Toledo
Journal article by Craig Patterson; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Baroja, Pio--Criticism and interpretation, Baroja, Pio--Works, Nationalism--Analysis, Nationalism--Portrayals, Pedrayo, Ramon Otero--Criticism and interpretation, Pedrayo, Ramon Otero--Works, Ruiz, Jose Martinez--Criticism and interpretation, Ruiz, Jose Martinez--Works
...introduction to Nietzsche in El Paular through conversation with...muerte de Justina, abandono el pueblo y vino a Madrid. En Madrid...valleys of Galicia and the placid Ferrol river in which he used to sail...art lover, was not aware of El Grecos painting, nor sensitive...
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Theatre by the People, for the People and of the People: People's Theatre and Landless Organizing in Bangladesh
Journal article by Ross Kidd, Mamunur Rashid; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 16, 1984
Subjects: Asia
...y Coordinacion Educativa para el Desarrollo en la Provincia de...Francisco Garzon Cespedes, El Teatro de Participacion Popular y El Teatro de la Comunidad : Un Teatro...2: 1974 , 24-26; Instituto Ferrol de Chimbote, Nacer de la Esperanza...
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Phi Alpha Theta Initiates
Journal article; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Educational organizations--Membership
...Robert Cazzoli, Gregory E. Finger, Kathleen A. Griswold, Ferrol T. Lynch, Victoria A. Olavarria, David C. Sloan. Merrimack...Justin C. Houghton, Mary M. Young. University of Texas-El Paso (Gamma Epsilon) 25 April 2008: Nancy Alexandra Aguirre...
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Train in Spain: Across Northern Spain by Rail, from Galicia to the Basque Country
Magazine article by Lucy Mccauley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997
Subjects: Spain--Description and travel
...parador, I meet the group that will ride El Transcantabrico. Natalia, our guide...will soon infect the rest of us. EL FERROL AFTER lunch we ride a bus from Santiago...Francisco Franco was born and where El Transcantabrico awaits us. There is...
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A Train to Spain: Across Northern Spain by Rail, from Galicia to the Basque Country
Magazine article by Lucy Mccauley; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997
Subjects: Railroad travel--Spain, Spain--Description and travel
...parador, I meet the group that will ride El Transcantbrico. Natalia, our guide...will soon infect the rest of us. El Ferrol After lunch we ride a bus from Santiago...Francisco Franco was born and where El Transcantbrico awaits us. There is...
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Franco's Irish Volunteers
Magazine article by Robert Stradling; History Today, Vol. 45, March 1995
Subjects: Fascists--Biography, Ireland--History, O'Duffy, Eoin--Biography, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, Foreign
...without mishap, and the party reached El Ferrol two days later. This seemed a good...constituted as a bandera (battalion) of El Tercio - the Elite Foreign Legion founded...training in the methods and discipline of El Tercio in Caceres (Extremadura...
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The Unsinkable CSS Stonewall
Magazine article by Mike Coppock; Sea Classics, Vol. 43, June 2010
...already burned his way across Georgia. The storm had damaged the Ram to the point she had to put in to the shipyard at El Ferrol for extensive repairs. American spies had already informed John Bigelow that the Ram had left Copenhagen. On 28 January...
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Dr. Craig M. Brandt Dean of Academic Affairs, and Deputy Commandant Retires from the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management
Magazine article; DISAM Journal of International Security Assistance Management, Vol. 29, December 2007
Subjects: Armed forces, Brandt, Craig, Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management, Foreign policy, International relations-US, Retirement, Shipbuilding
...After a year in the Spanish headquarters, Craig was sent to the Resident Shipbuilding Liaison Office at the shipyard in El Ferrol del Caudillo. Returning to the U.S. in November 1972, Craig became the head of the Allowance and Load List Branch...
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newspaper articles on: Ferrol El  - 12 results

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`Green Spain' by Train: A Rare and Scenic Joy
Newspaper article by Fred, Karen Eckert; The Washington Times, March 23, 1997
Subjects: Spain
...Compostela is the orientation point for our journey on El Transcantabrico, an upscale narrow-gauge train that...touring Santiago de Compostela, we head farther north, to El Ferrol, to board El Transcantabrico for our eight-day/seven-night leisurely...
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Chow's That!
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), August 6, 2006
...voyage calling at Lisbon, Cadiz, Malaga, Casablanca and El Ferrol. Prices currently start from pounds 803 per person...voyage calling at Lisbon, Cadiz, Malaga, Casablanca and El Ferrol. Prices currently start from pounds 803 per person...
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Skipper of Mutiny Yacht Must Pay Up
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 12, 2004
...bizarre incident. The maritime judge at the navy port of El Ferrol, Lieutenant-Colonel Manuel Leira said yesterday, I...dont think we have ever had a case as strange as this and El Ferrol is the biggest navy port in Spain and this court has handled...
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Franco's Legacy in Spain
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 30, 2006
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf
...5 feet, 3 inches tall as an adult. His birthplace, El Ferrol, site of a Spanish naval base in the northwest corner of...second home with a mistress. He lived to see his son become El Caudillo of Spain. Francos biographers agree Franco avoided...
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Late Deals
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 15, 2008
...seven-night yacht voyage on MV Harmony via Petra, Sharm El Sheikh, Karnak, Luxor and snorkelling in Red Sea in Nov...Black Watch, ex-Dover Nov 23 to La Rochelle, Bilbao, el Ferrol, Oporto, Cherbourg. Same operator offers six nights on...
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Ferrol
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FERROL farol , city (1990 pop. 86,272), A Coruna...are the main industries. Francisco Franco , El Caudillo, was born there, and from 1939 to the early 1980s it was known as El Ferrol del Caudillo...


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