Before that, during the 40-year-long dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, domestic violence was not considered a crime.
He fled from the Republican north to France, returning later to an area held by Francisco Franco's victorious rebels.
Republicanism is still a potent force in Spain, less than 40 years after the end of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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In 1939, Britain and France recognized Francisco Franco's rebel government in Spain.
Francisco Franco, who waged a ruthless campaign to suppress Basque language and culture, centred in several provinces in northern Spain and southern France.
"The control Putin is building over the country's corporate sector resembles the kind of fascism instituted by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini or Spain's Francisco Franco, " Ponomaryov says.
Regional separatism was repressed during the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco but when Spain returned to democracy, after Franco's death in 1975, its provinces were given substantial autonomy.
ETA, an acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language, once enjoyed a greater degree of sympathy, especially in the days of dictator General Francisco Franco, who brutally repressed Basque culture.
Sensing that it would contribute to the restoration of the monarchy, his parents handed the young prince over to be brought up by Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco, a man whom they mistrusted and despised.
King Juan Carlos, whose throne was restored in 1975, was the most popular public figure in Spain in the late 1970s because of his role in supporting the transition to democracy after the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Not only did the victory of the fascist dictator, General Francisco Franco, result in the brutal repression of those who fought against him on the Republican side but it also resulted in Madrid again ordering the abolition of Catalonia's autonomous institutions.
Spaniards generally hold the king in high regard for his service to the nation and his defense of democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 -- especially the king's decisive stand to halt a right-wing military coup in 1981.
Just like Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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"Russian rock songwriting at its best has been very specific to Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, " said Peter Varshavsky, who heads the San Francisco-based label Porto Franco Records and has represented Russian rock bands.
Will (James Franco, trying harder than usual), a young genetic engineer working for a San Francisco biotech company, brings home and raises Caesar, a young chimp with enhanced brain cells.
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