Spain Autonomous Communities
Note: The
Spanish constitution of 1978 mandated the creation of
autonomous communities. They were implemented by statute,
and created by stages from 1979 to 1983, each consisting
of one or more provinces. Since 1995, Spain has
consisted of 17 autonomous communities and 2
autonomous cities (ciudades autónomas)
of Ceuta and Melilla.
Party abbreviations: CDA
= Convergéncia Democratica Aranesa-Partit Nacionalista
Aranés (Aranese Democratic Convergence - Aranese
Nationalist Party, center-right,
liberalism, Aranese autonomy, Val d'Aran division of
CDC, est.30 Mar 1995); CpM
= Coalición por Melilla (Coalition for Melilla, social
democratic, split from PSOE, est.2
Oct 1995); Cs = Ciudadanos- Partido de la
Ciudadanía (Citizens-Party of the Citizenry,
conservative liberal, populist, center-right, est.1 Jun
2006); EAJ-PNV = Euzko
Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco (Basque
Nationalist Party, right-moderate, separatist, est.1895,
banned 1939-1977); ERC
= Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of
Catalonia, social-democratic, Catalan nationalist, est.19
Mar 1931, banned 1939-1977); ExC
= Eivissa pel Canvi-Ibiza por el Cambio (Ibiza for
Change, socialist, ecologist, est.2006);
FA = Foro Asturias
(Asturias Forum, center-right, split
from PP, 18 Jan 2011); GB = Geroa
Bai (Yes to the Future, center-left coalition incl. EAJ-PNV,
Basque nationalist, Navarra regionalist, est.2011);
GxF = Gent per Formentera-Gente
por Formentera (People for Formentera,
socialist, ecologist, est.2007);
Ind = independiente (Independent, unaffiliated);
MES = Més per Mallorca (More
for Majorca, democratic socialist, ecologist, est.2 Feb
2013); MpM = Més per Menorca (More
for Minorca, democratic socialist,
ecologist, est.Jul 2014); PACTE
= Pacte Progressista d'Eivissa-Pacto
Progresista de Ibiza (Ibiza Progressive
Pact, ecologist, socialist, est.1996);
PAR = Partido Aragonés (Aragonese
Party, center-right, Aragonese
nationalist, 1978-90 named Partido
Aragonés Regionalista [Aragonese Regionalist
Party], est.Jan 1978); PDECAT = Partit Demòcrata
Europeu Català (Catalan European Democratic Party,
center-right, liberal, Catalan nationalist,
pro-independence, former CDC, est.10 Jun 2016);
PIM = Partido Independiente de
Melilla (Melilla Independent Party, split from
PP, est.21 Mar 1997); Podemos
= Podemos ("We Can", democratic
socialist, populist, republican, federalist,
Eurosceptic, est.17 Jan 2014); PP
= Partido Popular (People's Party, center-right,
former AP, est.20 Jan 1989); PPIB = Partit
Popular de les Illes Balears (Popular Party
of the Balearic Islands, Balearic Islands PP
branch, est.20 Jan 1989); PPA = Partido
Popular de Aragón (Popular Party of Aragon, PP Aragon
branch, est.20 Jan 1989); PPCV-PP =
Partit Popular de la Comunitat Valenciana-Partido
Popular de la Comunidad Valenciana (People's Party of Valencia,
center-right, PP in Valencia, est.20 Jan 1989); PRC
= Partido Regionalista de Cantabria (Regionalist Party
of Cantabria, centrist, est.10
Nov 1978); PSE-EE
= Partido Socialista de Euskadi-Euskadiko Ezkerra
(Basque Socialist Party-Left Basque Country-PSOE,
social-democratic, Basque regional PSOE, est.1886,
banned 1936-1977); PSC-PSOE
= Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya-PSOE (Socialist
Party of Catalonia-PSOE, social -democratic, Catalonia
regional PSOE, est.1978); PSdeG-PSOE
= Partido dos Socialistas de
Galicia-PSOE (Socialist Party of Galicia-PSOE, social-democratic,
Galician regional PSOE, est.1983);
PSIB-PSOE = Partit Socialista de les
Illes Balears-PSOE (Socialist Party of the Balearic
Islands-PSOE, est.1913, banned 1939-1977); PSN-PSOE
= Partido Socialista de Navarra-PSOE (Socialist Party
of Navarre-PSOE, est.Jun 1982); PSOE
= Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Socialist
Workers' Party, social-democratic, est.2 May 1879,
banned 1939-1977); PSOE-A = Partido Socialista
Obrero Español-Partido de los Socialistas de Aragón
(PSOE-Party of the Socialists of Aragon, social-democratic,
Aragon branch of PSOE, est.1978); PSPC
= Partido Socialista del Pueblo de Ceuta
(City of Ceuta Socialist Party,
socialist, est.31 Jan 1986); PSPV-PSOE
= Partit Socialista del País
Valencià-PSOE - Partido Socialista del
País Valenciano-PSOE (Socialist
Party of the Valencian Community, center-left, social
democratic, from 1978 named PSPV-PSOE, est.1974);
PSRM-PSOE = Partido
Socialista de la Región de Murcia-PSOE (Socialist Party of the Region of
Murcia-PSOE, Murcia regional PSOE, est.1979);
RI = Reagrupament Independentista (Independentist
Regrouping, Catalan independence, Catalan
independentist, split from ERC, est.2009); SUF
= Sa Unió de Formentera (The Union of Formentera,
center-right, conservative, Formentera regionalist,
est.2011);; UA = Unitat
d'Aran - Partit Nacionalista Aranés (Unity of Aran -
Aranese Nationalist Party, center-left, Aranese autonomy,
est.2 Feb 1980); UPN
= Unión del Pueblo Navarro (United People of Navarre, foralist,
christian-democratic, Navarre regionalist, est.3
Jan 1979); Mil = Military;
- Former
parties: AP
= Alianza Popular (Popular Alliance, reformist,
conservative, 9 Oct 1976-20 Jan 1989, renamed PP);
CDC = Convergència Democràtica
de Catalunya (Democratic Convergence of Catalonia,
nationalist coalition, liberal, center-left, 17 Nov
1974 - 8 Jun 2016, renamed PDECAT); CDN
= Convergencia de Demócratas de Navarra
(Convergence of Democrats of Navarre, reformist,
centrist, Navarre regionalist, split
from UPN, 10 Apr 1995-2 Jun
2011); CDS
= Centro Democrático y Social (Social and
Democratic Center, social-liberal,
reformist, 29 Jul 1982-2006, merged into PP);
CEDA = Confederación Española de
Derechas Autónomas (Spanish Confederation of Autonomous
Right-wing Groups, nationalist, Catholic
conservative, 4 Mar 1933-19 Apr 1937);
CiU = Convergència i Unió (Convergence
and Union, center-right, separatist, coalition
of CDC and UDC, Sep 1978-17 Jun 2015);
CNT = Confederación
Nacional del Trabajo (National
Confederation of Labour, anarcho-syndicalist,
libertarian communism, 1910-1939);
GIL =
Grupo Independiente Liberal (Independent Liberal
Group, populist, conservative, Málaga regionalist,
Jesús Gil personalist, 1991-2007); Ind
= Independiente (Independent);
IR = Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left,
reformist republican, anti-clerical, 1934-1959); LR
= Lliga Regionalista (Regionalist League, Catalan
conservative, Apr 1901-1936); PFC
= Progreso y Futuro de Ceuta (Progress and Future of
Ceuta, split from PSOE, 1991-1999); PG
= Partido Galeguista (Galician Party,
Galicia autonomist, 1931-1950); PRP = Partido
Riojano Progresista (Rioja Progressive Party,
progressive, La Rioja regionalist, 6 Dec 1982-23 Jun
1990, renamed Partido Riojano); PRR
= Partido Republicano Radical (Radical
Republican Party, radical republican, 1908-1936, split
from UR); UCD
= Unión Centro Democrático (Union of Democratic Center,
center-right, 3 May 1977-18 Feb 1983); UDA
= Unió Democràtica Aranesa (Aranese
Democratic Union, Aran Valley regionalist, center-right,
split from UDC, 1991-2007,
merged into PP); UDC
= Unión Democràtica de Catalunya (Democratic Union of
Catalonia, Catalan, christian-democrat,
7 Nov 1931-24 Mar 2017, banned 1939-1977); UM
= Unió Mallorquina
(Majorcan Union, Balearic regionalism,
center-right, Oct 1982-Feb 2011); UMN
= Unión Monárquica Nacional (Monarchist National Union,
conservative, monarchist, anti-communist, former
Unión Patriótica, 1930-1934); UPCA
= Unión para el Progreso de Cantabria
(Union of the Progress of Cantabria, regionalist,
center-right, 23 Jan 1991-2003); UPM =
Unión del Pueblo Melillense (Melillan People's Union,
conservative, Melilla city regionalist, split from UCD,
26 Jun 1985-2003, merged into PP); UR = Unión
Republicana (Republican Union, center left, progressive,
republican, 1934-1959)
Andalucía (Andalusia)
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- Adopted 11 Jan 1982 Civil
Flag
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- Adopted 21 Dec 1982 State Flag
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27 May 1978
Junta of Andalusia (Junta
de Andalucía) formed to
administer the
municipalities within the provinces of Almería, Cádiz,
Córdoba,
Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville (by law
effective on
28 Apr 1978).
11 Jan
1982
Andalusia
(Andalucía)(composed of the municipalities within
the
provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva,
Jaén,
Málaga and Seville), established as an
autonomous community
(by law signed on 30 Dec 1981).
Presidents of the Junta of
Andalusia (Presidente de la Junta de Andalucía)
27 May 1978
- 2 Jun 1979 Plácido Fernández Viagas
(b.
1924 - d. 1982) PSOE
2 Jun 1979
- 14 Mar 1984 Rafael Escuredo Rodríguez
(b.
1944)
PSOE
(acting from 17 Feb 1984)
14 Mar 1984 - 26 Jul 1990 José Rodríguez
de la Borbolla (b.
1947)
PSOE
Camoyán
26 Jul 1990
- 7 Apr 2009 Manuel María Chaves González
(b.
1945)
PSOE
7 Apr 2009
- 23 Apr 2009 Gaspar Carlos Zarrías Arévalo
(b. 1955)
PSOE
(acting)
23 Apr 2009 - 7 Sep
2013 José Antonio Griñán Martínez
(b. 1946)
PSOE
7 Sep 2013 -
18 Jan 2019 Susana Díaz Pacheco
(f)
(b. 1971)
PSOE
18 Jan 2019
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Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla
(b. 1970)
PP
Aragón
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- 1936 - 10 Aug 1937
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- 10 May 1977 - 12 Apr 1978
Provisional
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- 12 Apr 1978 - 28 Jun 1984
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- Adopted 28 Jun 1984
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7 Jun
1936
Draft Statute of Autonomy of Aragón is
finalized and submitted to
the Spanish
parliament, which does not act due to civil war.
17 Jul 1936
Nationalist forces occupy
Zaragoza.
15 Oct 1936
Regional
Defense Council of Aragón (Consejo Regional
de
Defensa
de Aragón) formed by the National
Confederation of
Labour (CNT) in Fraga (from Dec 1936, in
Caspe), publicly
proclaimed 21 Dec 1936.
23 Dec
1936
Republican government recognizes the Regional
Council for the
Defense of Aragón as an
autonomous regional body.
10 Aug 1937
Council dissolved by Republican
forces by occupation of Caspe.
25 Mar
1938
Nationalist forces occupy Fraga (Caspe falls on
17 Mar 1938).
9 Apr 1978
General Deputation of Aragon (Diputación
General de Aragón)
formed
to administer the provinces of Huesca, Teruel and
Zaragoza (by
royal decree law of 17 Mar 1978, effective 18
Mar 1978).
5 Sep
1982
Aragon
(Aragón)(or Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón)(composed
of the
provinces of Huesca, Teruel, and Zaragoza),
established as an
autonomous community (by law signed on 10 Aug 1982).
President of the Regional Defense Council of
Aragon
15 Oct 1936 - 10 Aug 1937 Joaquín
Ascaso
Budría
(b. 1906 - d. 1977) CNT
(from 19 Jan 1937, also the Government Delegate
in Aragon)
Governor-general of Aragon
10 Aug 1937 - 27 Mar 1938 José
Ignacio Mantecón Navasal (b.
1902 - d. 1982) IR
Presidents of the General Deputation
of Aragon (Presidente
de la Diputación General de Aragón)
9 Apr 1978 - 9
May 1981 Juan-Antonio Bolea Foradada
(b. 1930 - d. 2021)
UCD
9 May 1981 - 14 Dec
1982 Gaspar Castellano y de
Gastón (b. 1928 - d. 2019)
UCD
14 Dec 1982 - 30 Dec
1982 José María Hernández de la Torre (b.
1940)
UCD
(acting)
30 Dec 1982 - 6 Jun
1983 Juan Antonio de Andrés Rodríguez (b.
1942)
UCD
6 Jun 1983 - 30 Jul 1987
Santiago Marraco Solana
(b. 1938)
PSOE-A
30 Jul 1987 - 12 Jul
1991 Hipólito Gómez de las Roces
(b.
1932)
PAR
Pinilla
12 Jul 1991 - 17 Sep
1993 Emilio Eiroa García
(b. 1935 - d. 2013) PAR
17 Sep 1993 - 19 Jan
1995 José Marco Berges
(b.
1950)
PSOE-A
19 Jan 1995 - 11 Jul
1995 Ramón Tejedor Sanz
(acting) (b.
1955)
PSOE-A
11 Jul 1995 - 2 Aug 1999
Santiago Lanzuela Marina
(b.
1948 - d. 2020) PPA
Presidents of the
Government of Aragon (Presidente del Gobierno
de Aragón)
2 Aug 1999 - 14 Jul 2011 Marcelino Iglesias
Ricou
(b.
1951)
PSOE-A
14 Jul 2011 - 5 Jul 2015 Luisa
Fernanda Rudí Úbeda (f) (b. 1950)
PPA
5 Jul 2015 - 11 Aug 2023
Francisco Javier Lambán Montañés (b. 1957)
PSOE-A
11 Aug 2023
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Jorge Antonio Azcón
Navarro (b.
1973)
PPA
Asturias
- 10 Nov 1978 - 31 Jan 1982
Unofficial
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- Adopted 31 Jan 1982 Civil Flag
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![[Principality of Asturias Ceremonial
Flag (Spain)] [Principality of
Asturias Ceremonial Flag (Spain)]](es-as_c.gif)
- Adopted 6 Feb 1991 Ceremonial
Flag
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17 Jul 1936
Nationalist
forces occupy Oviedo.
6 Sep
1936
Popular Front Committee (Comité del Frente
Popular) is established
in Gijón by under Belarmino Tomás Álvarez by
the General Union of
Workers of Spain (Unión General de Trabajadores).
23 Dec
1936
Popular Front Committee is transformed into the Interprovincial
Council of Asturias and Leon
(Consejo Interprovincial
de Asturias
y León)(around Gijón,
Ribadesella, Santoña, and Avilés),
which is
recognized by the Republican government
as an autonomous regional
body.
24 Aug 1937
Interprovincial Council is transformed
into the Sovereign Council
of Asturias and Leon (Consejo
Soberano de Asturias y
León).
18 Sep 1937
Nationalist forces occupy Ribadesella
on 18 Sep 1937, Santoña on
27 Sep 1937, and Covadonga 1 Oct 1937.
21 Oct 1937
Autonomy ended by Nationalist
forces occupation of Gijón
and
Avilés.
10 Nov 1978
Regional
Council of Asturias (Consejo Regional de
Asturias) formed
to administer the municipalities within
the province of Oviedo
(by law of 27 Sep 1978, effective 10 Oct 1978).
31 Jan
1982
Principality of Asturias (Principado de
Asturias)(composed of the
municipalities within the province of Oviedo),
established as
an autonomous community (by
organic law of 30 Dec 1981).
President of the Popular Front Committee
6 Sep 1936 - 23 Dec 1936 Belarmino
Tomás
Álvarez
(b. 1892 - d. 1950) PSOE
(also Governor-general of Asturias and Leon 29
Sep 1936-14 Jan 1937)
President of the Interprovincial Council of Asturias
and Leon
23 Dec 1936 - 24 Aug 1937 Belarmino
Tomás Álvarez
(s.a.)
PSOE
(also Government Delegate in the Provinces of Asturias
and Leon 14 Jan 1937 - 21 Oct 1937)
President of the Sovereign Council of Asturias and
Leon
24 Aug 1937 - 21 Oct 1937
Belarmino Tomás Álvarez
(s.a.)
PSOE
(fled territory on 20 Oct 1937)
President of the Regional Council of
Asturias (Presidente
del Consejo Regional de Asturias)
10 Nov 1978 -
17 May 1982 Rafael Luis Fernández
Álvarez (b. 1913 - d.
2010) PSOE
Presidents
of the Principality of Asturias (Presidente
del Principado de Asturias)
17 May 1982 -
21 Jun 1983 Rafael Luis Fernández
Álvarez
(s.a.)
PSOE
21 Jun 1983 - 11 Jul 1991 Pedro
de Silva
Cienfuegos-
(b.
1945)
PSOE
Jovellanos
11 Jul 1991 - 23 Jun 1993 Juan
Luis Rodríguez-Vigil Rubio (b.
1945)
PSOE
23 Jun 1993 - 17 Jul 1995
Antonio Ramón María Trevín Lombán (b.
1956)
PSOE
17 Jul 1995 -
22 Jul 1999 Sergio Rutilio Marqués
Fernández (b. 1946 - d. 2012) PP
22 Jul 1999 -
16 Jul 2011 Vicente Alberto Álvarez
Areces (b. 1943 - d. 2019)
PSOE
16 Jul 2011 - 26 May
2012 Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
(b. 1947)
FA
Fernández
26 May 2012 - 20 Jul 2019 Javier
Fernández Fernández
(b.
1948)
PSOE
20 Jul 2019
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Adrián Barbón
Rodríguez
(b. 1979)
PSOE
Baleares (Balears)
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- 28 Jul 1978 - 1 Mar 1983
Unofficial
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- 28 Jul 1978 - 1 Mar 1983
(Variant)
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- Adopted 1 Mar 1983
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18 Jul 1936
Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera under the
Nationalists. On 9 Feb
1939, Menorca surrenders to Nationalist forces.
28 Jul 1978
General
Inter-island Council (Consejo General
Interinsular) created
to administer the Balearic Islands of
Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza,
and Formentera (by law of 13 Jun 1978).
1 Mar
1983
Balearic
Islands (Islas Baleares = Illes Balears)(composed
of the
province of Baleares [the islands of Mallorca, Menorca,
Ibiza,
and Formentera]), established as an autonomous community
(by law of 25 Feb 1983).
Presidents of the General Inter-Island
Council
28 Jul 1978 - 27
Sep 1982 Jeroni Albertí i
Picornell (b.
1927)
UCD
27 Sep 1982 - 10
Jun 1983 Francesc Tutzó
Bennàsar
(b.
1940)
UCD
Presidents of the
Government of the
Balearic Islands
10 Jun 1983 - 31 Jul 1995 Gabriel Cañellas
i
Fons
(b. 1941)
AP;1989 PPIB-PP
31 Jul 1995 - 17 Jun 1996 Cristòfol Soler i
Cladera
(b.
1956)
PPIB-PP
17 Jun 1996 - 26 Jul 1999 Jaume Matas i
Palou (1st time) (b.
1956)
PPIB-PP
26 Jul 1999 - 26 Jun 2003 Francesc Antich i
Oliver
(b.
1958)
PSIB-PSOE
(1st time)
26 Jun 2003 - 5 Jul 2007 Jaume Matas
i Palou (2nd time)
(s.a.)
PPIB-PP
5 Jul 2007 - 17 Jun 2011 Francesc
Antich i
Oliver
(s.a.)
PSIB-PSOE
(2nd time)
17 Jun 2011 - 2 Jul 2015 José Ramón
Bauzà
Díaz
(b.
1970)
PPIB-PP
2 Jul 2015 - 20 Jun 2023 Francesca
"Francina"
Lluch
(b.
1971)
PSIB-PSOE
Armengol Socías (f)
20 Jun 2023 - 7 Jul 2023 María
Asunción Jacoba Pía "Mae" (b.
1954)
Podemos
de la Concha García-Mauriño (f)
(acting)
7 Jul 2023
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Margalida "Marga" Prohens Rigo (f) (b.
1982)
PPIB-PP
Mallorca (Majorca)
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Adopted
25 Feb 1983
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Presidents of the Island Council of Mallorca
24 Apr 1979 - 27 Sep 1982 Jeroni
Albertí i
Picornell
(b. 1927) UCD
(1st time)
27 Sep 1982 - 23 Jun 1983 Maximilià
Morales i Gómez
(b. 1948 - d. 2017) UCD
23 Jun 1983 - 16 Jun 1987 Jeroni Albertí i
Picornell
(s.a.)
UM
(2nd time)
16 Jun 1987 - 7 Jul 1995 Joan Verger
i Pocoví
(b. 1944 - d. 2013) PPIB-PP
7 Jul 1995 - 29 Jun 2007 María
Antònia Munar i Riutort (f) (b. 1955)
UM
29 Jun 2007 - 14 Jun 2011
Francesca "Francina"
Lluch
(b. 1971)
PSIB-PSOE
Armengol Socías (f)
14 Jun 2011 - 4 Jul
2015 María Salom Coll
(f)
(b. 1967)
PPIB-PP
4 Jul 2015 - 6 Jul 2019 Miquel
Ensenyat Riutort
(b. 1969)
MES
6 Jul 2019 - 9 Jul 2023
Catalina Cladera Crespí
(f) (b. 1972)
PSIB-PSOE
9 Jul 2023
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Llorenç Sebastià Galmés Verger
(b.
1983)
PPIB-PP
Menorca (Minorca)
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- 28 Jul 1978 - 14 Nov 1983
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Islands, Spain)] [Minorca (Balearic
Islands, Spain)]](es-ib-mi.gif)
Adopted 14 Nov 1983 |
Presidents of the Island Council of Menorca
19 Apr 1979 - 8 May 1983 Francesc Tutzó
Bennàsar (b.
1940) UCD
8 May 1983 - 26 May 1991 Tirso Pons Pons
(b. 1939 - d. 2013) PSIB-PSOE
26 May 1991 - 18 Sep 1991 Albert Moragues Gomila
(b.
1953)
PSIB-PSOE
18 Sep 1991 - 27 Aug 1995 Joan Huguet i Rotger
(b.
1954) PPIB-PP
27 Aug 1995 - 30 Jul 1999 Cristòfol Triay
i Humbert (b. 1948)
PPIB-PP
30 Jul 1999 - 17 Sep 2008 Joana María
Barceló i Martí (f) (b. 1959)
PSIB-PSOE
18 Sep 2008 - 14 Jun 2011 Marc Pons Pons
(b. 1973)
PSIB-PSOE
14 Jun 2011 - 24 May 2015 Santiago Tadeo
Florit
(b. 1968)
PPIB-PP
25 May 2015 - 30 Jul 2017 Maite Salord i Ripoll
(f)
(b.
1965)
MpM
30 Jul 2017 - 8 Jul 2023
Susana Mora Humbert (f)
(b. 1982)
PSIB-PSOE
8 Jul 2023
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Adolfo Vilafranca
Florit
(b.
1978)
PPIB-PP
Ibiza (Eivissa)
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- 1 Dec 1983 - 21 Dec
2007,
- from 11 Jul 2008
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- 21 Dec 2007 - 11 Jul 2008
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Presidents of the Island Council
of Ibiza and Formentera
19 Apr 1979 - 27 Jul 1987 Cosme Vidal Juan
(b. 1930 - d. 2001) Ind/PPIB-PP
27 Jul 1987 - 31 Jul 1999 Antoni Marí Calbet
(b. 1932)
PPIB-PP
31 Jul 1999 - 4 Jul 2003 Pilar Costa Serra
(f) (b.
1967) PACTE
4 Jul 2003 - 9 Jul 2007 Pere Palau
Torres
(b. 1946)
PPIB-PP
Presidents of the Island Council of Ibiza
9 Jul 2007 - 1 Jul 2011
Francesc "Xico" Tarrés Marí
(b. 1958)
PSIB-PSOE
1 Jul 2011 - 4 Jul 2015 Vicent Serra
Ferrer
(b. 1956)
PPIB-PP
4 Jul 2015 - 5 Jul 2019 Vicent
Torres Guasch
(b.
1963)
PSIB-PSOE
5 Jul 2019
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Vicente
Marí Torres
(b. 1965)
PPIB-PP
Formentera
Adopted 25 Jul 2010 |
Presidents of the Island Council of Formentera
9 Jul 2007 - 15 Jun 2019
Jaume Ferrer Ribas
(b. 1969)
GxF
15 Jun 2019 - 15 Oct 2021 Alejandra Ferrer
Kirschbaum (f) (b. 1977)
GxF
15 Oct 2021 - 17 Jun 2023 Ana Juan Torres
(f)
(b.
1971)
PSIB-PSOE
17 Jun 2023
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Lorenzo Córdoba
Marí
(b. 1973) SUF
Basque Country: see País
Vasco/Euskadi
Canary Islands (Canarias): see Canary Islands
Cantabria
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- Adopted 31 Jan 1982 Civil Flag
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- Adopted 22 Dec 1984 State
Flag
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27 Jul 1936
Santander Defense Junta formed,
on 23 Dec 1936 recognized by
the
Republican government as an autonomous regional body.
8 Feb 1937 - 7 Sep 1937 Inter-provincial
Council of Santander, Palencia and Burgos
(Consejo Interprovincial de Santander,
Palencia y Burgos)
constituted. It is formally dissolved on
7 Sep 1937.
26 Aug 1937
Nationalist forces occupy
Santander (Tresviso, the last area
in
Republican hands falls to the Nationalists 17
Sep 1937).
31 Jan
1982
Cantabria (or Comunidad Autónoma de
Cantabria)(composed of the
municipalities the province of Santander), established
as an
autonomous
community (by organic law of 30 Dec 1981).
President of the Santander Defense Junta
27 Jul 1936 - 8 Feb 1937 Juan Ruiz
Olazarán
(b. 1901 - d. 1996) PSOE
(also Governor-general of provinces of
Santander and Palencia 19 Nov 1936 – 17 Jan 1937)
President of the Inter-provincial Council of
Santander, Palencia and Burgos
8 Feb 1937 - 7 Sep
1937 Juan Ruiz Olazarán
(s.a.)
PSOE
(from 17 Jan 1937, also Government Delegate in
the provinces of Santander, Palencia and Burgos)
Presidents of the Regional Deputation of
Cantabria
(Presidente de la
Diputación Regional de Cantabria)
13 Apr 1982 - 31 Mar 1984 José Antonio Rodríguez
Martínez (b. 1931)
AP
31 Mar 1984 - 29 Jul 1987 Ángel
Díaz de Entresotos y Mier (b. 1927 - d.
2009) AP
29 Jul 1987 - 13 Dec 1990 Juan
Hormaechea Cazón (1st time) (b. 1939 - d.
2020) AP
13 Dec 1990 - 8 Jul 1991 Jaime
María Blanco García
(b. 1944 - d.
2020) PSOE
8 Jul 1991 - 19 Jul 1995 Juan
Hormaechea Cazón (2nd time)
(s.a.)
UPCA/PP
19 Jul 1995 - 20 Jan
1999 José Joaquín Martínez
Sieso (b.
1956)
PP
Presidents of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria
(Presidente de la Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria)
20 Jan 1999 - 3? Jul 2003 José Joaquín Martínez
Sieso
(s.a.)
PP
3? Jul 2003 - 27 Jun 2011 Miguel
Ángel Revilla
Roiz (b.
1943)
PRC
(1st
time)
27 Jun 2011 - 7 Jul 2015 Juan Ignacio Diego
Palacios (b. 1960)
PP
7 Jul 2015 - 5 Jul 2023
Miguel Ángel Revilla Roiz
(s.a.)
PRC
(2nd
time)
5 Jul 2023
-
María José Sáenz de Buruaga (b.
1968) PP
Gómez (f)
Castilla-La
Mancha (Castile-La Mancha)
Capital:
Toledo |
Population: 2,045,000
(2020) |
Hear
Local Anthem
"Canto a Castilla-
La Mancha"
(unofficial)
|
Text of Anthem
From 2021
|
28 Nov 1978
Junta of Communities
of the Castilian-La Mancha Region (Junta de
Comunidades de la región
castellano-manchega) formed to administer
the municipalities within the provinces of Albacete,
Ciudad Real,
Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo (by law of 31 Oct 1978,
effective
15 Nov 1978).
17 Aug 1982
Castile-La Mancha (Castilla-La Mancha)(also in
use Comunidad
Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha or Región
de Castilla-La Mancha)
(composed of the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real,
Cuenca,
Guadalajara and Toledo), organized as an
autonomous community
(by organic law of 10 Aug 1982).
Presidents of the Junta of the Communities of
Castile-La Mancha
(Presidente de la Junta de Comunidades de
Castilla-La Mancha)
28 Nov 1978 - 1 Feb 1982 Antonio
Fernández-Galiano Fernández(b. 1926 - d. 1999) UCD
(formal inauguration 11 Dec 1978)
1 Feb 1982 - 4 Jan 1983 Gonzalo Payo
Subiza
(b. 1931 - d. 2002) UCD
4 Jan 1983 - 7 Jun 1983 Jesús
Fuentes
Lázaro
(b.
1946)
PSOE
7 Jun 1983 - 17 Apr 2004 José Bono
Martínez
(b.
1950)
PSOE
17 Apr 2004 - 22 Jun 2011 José María
Barreda
Fontes
(b.
1953)
PSOE
(acting to 30 Apr 2004)
22 Jun 2011 - 4 Jul 2015 María Dolores de
Cospedal
(b. 1965)
PP
García (f)
4 Jul 2015
-
Emiliano García-Page Sánchez
(b. 1968)
PSOE
Castilla y
León (Castile and Leon)
-
- 22 Jul 1978 - 2 Mar 1983
Unofficial
|
-
- Adopted 2 Mar 1983
|
22 Jul
1978
General Council of Castile and Leon (Consejo General
de Castilla
y de
León) formed to administer the provinces of Ávila,
Burgos,
León,
Logroño, Palencia, Salamanca, Santander, Segovia, Soria,
Valladolid and Zamora (by decree of 13 Jun 1978,
effective 30 Jun
1978).
The Diputación Provincial of Logroño and the Diputación
Provincial of Santander declined the
incorporation.
2 Mar
1983
Castile and Leon (Castilla y León)(also
in use Comunidad de Castilla
y León, or Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y
León)(composed of the
municipalities integrated into the provinces of Ávila,
Burgos,
León, Palencia, Salamanca, Soria, Valladolid and Zamora),
organized as an autonomous community (by organic law of
25 Feb
1983).
Presidents of the General Council of Castile and
Leon
(Presidente del Consejo General de Castilla y León)
22 Jul 1978 - 12 Jul 1980 Juan Manuel Reol
Tejada
(b. 1933 - d. 2008) UCD
12 Jul 1980 - 3 Jun 1983 José Manuel
García-Verdugo y (b.
1935)
UCD
Candón
Presidents of the Junta of Castile and Leon
(Presidente de la Junta de Castilla y León)
3 Jun 1983 - 24 Nov 1986 Demetrio Madrid
López
(b.
1936)
PSOE
24 Nov 1986 - 28 Jul 1987 José Constantino Nalda
García (b.
1939)
PSOE
28 Jul 1987 - 20 Sep 1989 José María Alfredo
Aznar López (b.
1953)
AP
20 Sep 1989 - 10 Jul 1991 Jesús María Posada
Moreno
(b.
1945)
PP
10 Jul 1991 - 27 Feb 2001 Juan José Lucas
Jiménez
(b.
1944)
PP
27 Feb 2001 - 19 Mar 2001 José Manuel Fernández
Santiago (b. 1958)
PP
(acting)
19 Mar 2001 - 12 Jul 2019 Juan
Vicente Herrera
Campo (b.
1956)
PP
12 Jul 2019
-
Alfonso Fernando
Fernández (b.
1965)
PP
Mañueco
Catalonia
(Cataluña/Catalunya)
-
![[Catalan state flag (Estelada)
1931-1939 (Catalonia, Spain)] [Catalan state
flag (Estelada) 1931-1939 (Catalonia, Spain)]](es-catst.gif)
- 14 Apr 1931 - 7 Oct
1934 Unofficial,
- 1 Mar 1936 - 26 Jan 1939
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-
- Variant 14 Apr 1931 - 7
Oct 1934,
- 1 Mar 1936 -
26 Jan 1939
|
-
- Adopted 11 Jan 1980
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6 Apr
1914
Mancomunitat de Catalunya (Commonwealth
of Catalonia), a
deliberative assembly of the councillors of the four
provinces of
Catalonia, with mainly advisory powers only is
established (by
18 Dec 1913 Law approving the formation of provincial
federations
signed by King Alfonso XIII).
25 Jan 1919
Mancomunitat
approves a draft Statute of Autonomy, but the draft is
rejected
by the Spanish Parliament.
20 Mar
1925
Mancomunitat is dissolved by the
Spanish military government.
14 Apr 1931 - 17 Apr
1931 Catalan Republic (República
Catalana) is proclaimed a state, as
part
of a projected Confederació de pobles
ibèrics ("Confederation of
Iberian
peoples"), at a meeting at the chamber of
sessions of the
Diputación of the Province of Barcelona
(not recognized by
government of Spain).
17 Apr 1931 - 6 Oct
1934 Cataluña (to 27 May 1933) =
Catalunya. The government of the
Catalan Republic is organized as the Govern de la
Generalitat de
Catalunya as a result of negotiations between the
government of
Spain and the government of Catalonia.
10 May
1931
Powers and authority of the Generalitat of
Catalonia are recognized
by decree of the Provisional Government of Spain of 9
May 1931.
21 Sep
1932
Catalonia
(composed of the provinces of Barcelona, Gerona, Lérida
and
Tarragona) organized as an autonomous region by the Statute
of
Catalonia (Estatuto de Cataluña/Estatut de Catalunya)
of 1932
approved
by the Spanish parliament on 9 Sep 1932.
27 May
1933
Catalan is recognized as the sole official language in
accordance
with Art. 3 of a statute (Estatut interior de
Catalunya) passed by
the
Parliament of Catalonia on 25 May 1933.
6 Oct 1934 - 7 Oct 1934
Catalan State (Estat Català) is proclaimed a
state as part of a
projected Spanish federal republic (República Federal
Espanyola)
by
proclamation of the President of the Generalitat
(not
recognized by government of Spain).
7 Oct 1934 - 26 Jan 1939 Cataluña
= Catalunya
7 Oct
1934
Autonomy is de facto rescinded by military
intervention, military
commander of the army of Spain assumed the government
of
Catalonia.
3 Jan 1935
Autonomy of Catalonia and authority
of the Parliament of Catalonia
are suspended, executive authority is vested in a
governor-general
in
accordance with law passed by the Cortes of Spain on 18
Dec
1934.
27 Feb
1936
Autonomy of Catalonia remains suspended, but the
Parliament of
Catalonia is authorized to resume functions for the
purpose of
appointing the Government of the Generalitat (in
accordance with a
law of
26 Feb 1936 signed by the President of Spanish
Republic).
8 Apr
1938
Autonomy revoked by the Nationalist Spanish government
(by 5 Apr
1938
decree, retroactive to 17 Jul 1936).
Statute of Catalonia of
1932 declared
to have ceased to function on 17 Jul 1936.
Barcelona, Gerona, Lérida and Tarragona provinces are
placed under
the
government of provincial administrations (not effected
until
26 Jan
1939).
26 Jan 1939
Nationalists occupy
Barcelona, polity collapses. Occupation of the
rest of
Catalonia completed 5-9 Feb 1939.
24 Oct
1977
Generalidad de Cataluña/Generalitat de
Catalunya (restored), the
provinces
of Barcelona, Gerona, Lérida and Tarragona placed under
it (by
decree of 29 Sep 1977, effective 5 Oct 1977).
11 Jan 1980
Catalonia (Catalunya = Cataluña), organized as an
autonomous
community (composed of the provinces of Barcelona,
Gerona, Lérida
and
Tarragona)(by law signed 18 Dec 1979).
23 Jan
2013
Catalan Parliament adopts a
"Declaration on the Sovereignty and
Right to Decide of the People of Catalonia" (suspended
on 8 May
2013, and then on 25 Mar 2014, ruled
unconstitutional by
Constitutional
Court of Spain).
9 Nov 2014
Self-determination referendum is held
(after it was suspended by
Constitutional Court of Spain on 27 Sep
2014, and was then
downgraded to a non-binding
"participation process" by the region,
which on 4 Nov 2014 was also
suspended by the Constitutional
Court).
The vote supports, by 80.7%,
the Yes-Yes options: "Do you
want
Catalonia to become a State?" and "Do you want this
State to
be independent?"; the vote is subsequently
declared illegal by the
Constitutional Court of
Spain on 17 Feb 2015).
1 Oct 2017
Generalitat self-determination
referendum is supported by 92% of
voters in a limited (43%) turn out (referendum
was suspended by
Constitutional Court of Spain on
14 Dec 2016; on 3 Mar 2017
Catalan Council for Statutory
Guarantees issues a non-binding
ruling that the Generalitat does not have
the competence to call
for an independence
referendum. The Constitutional
Court of Spain
declares the law passed by the Parliament of Catalonia
on 6 Sep
2017 authorizing the referendum unconstitutional and
null 17 Oct
2017).
27 Oct
2017
Catalonia is proclaimed a sovereign and independent
republic in
accordance with a resolution passed by the Parliament of
Catalonia, acting on the results of the referendum held
on 1 Oct
2017.
Spain dissolves the Generalitat and removes the
government
of Carles Puigdemont (suspended by Constitutional Court
of Spain
on 31 Oct 2017).
28 Oct 2017 - 17 May 2018 Autonomy suspended, Catalonia
is placed under direct administration
of the
federal government of Spain (functions of the
President of
the Generalitat are exercised by the President
of the Government
of Spain, who delegates the role to the Vice President
of the
Government and Minister for Territorial
Administrations)(by law of
27 Oct
2017).
17 May 2018
Autonomous administration is de facto restored.
President of the Catalan Republic
14 Apr 1931 - 17 Apr 1931 Francesc Macià
i Llussà (b.
1859 - d. 1933) ERC
President of the Provisional Government
of the Generalitat of
Catalonia
17 Apr 1931 - 14
Dec 1932 Francesc Macià i Llussà
(s.a.)
ERC
Presidents of the Generalitat
of Catalonia
14 Dec 1932 - 25 Dec 1933 Francesc Macià i
Llussà
(s.a.)
ERC
25 Dec 1933 - 31 Dec 1933 Joan Casanovas
i Maristany
(b. 1890 - d. 1942) ERC
(interim)
31 Dec 1933
- 7 Oct 1934 Lluís Companys i Jover (1st
time) (b. 1882 - d. 1940) ERC
(imprisoned 7
Oct 1934, term terminated by order
of 13 Oct 1934)
7 Oct 1934 - 10 Jan 1935 Francisco Jiménez
Arenas (acting) (b. 1872/73-d. 1936) Mil
(appointed by Military Government Authority of
4th Division)
Governors-general of Catalonia, Presidents
of the Generalitat
10 Jan 1935 - 9 Apr 1935 Manuel
Portela Valladares
(b.
1868 - d. 1952) Ind
4 Apr 1935 - 28 Oct 1935 Joan Pich
i Pon
(b. 1878 - d. 1937) PRR
(acting [for Portela to 9 Apr 1935]
to 23 Apr 1935, then interim)
28 Oct 1935 - 25 Nov 1935 Eduard Alonso i
Alonso (interim)
Non-party
25 Nov 1935 - 18 Dec 1935 Ignasi
Villalonga i Villalba (b.
1895 - d. 1973) CEDA
14 Dec 1935 - 20 Dec 1935 Joan Maluquer i
Villadot (b. 1856 -
d. 1940) LR
(acting [for Villalonga] to 18 Dec
1935, then interim)
20 Dec 1935 - 17 Feb 1936 Fèlix Escalas i
Chamení
(b. 1880 - d. 1972) Non-party
17 Feb 1936 - 1 Mar 1936 Joan Moles
i Ormella
(b. 1871 - d. 1945) Ind
Presidents of the Generalitat
of Catalonia
(Presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña =
President de la Generalitat de Catalunya)
1 Mar 1936 - 5 Feb 1939 Lluís
Companys i Jover¹ (2nd time)
(s.a.)
ERC
(left national territory on 5 Feb
1939,
continues in exile to 15 Oct 1940)
5 Feb 1939 - 24 Oct 1977
Post abolished
24 Oct 1977 - 28
Apr 1980 Josep Tarradellas i
Joan
(b. 1899 - d. 1988) ERC
(appointed
17 Oct 1977; de facto acting 28 Apr - 8 May 1980)
8 May 1980 - 20 Dec 2003 Jordi
Pujol i
Soley
(b.
1930)
CDC-CiU
20 Dec 2003 - 28 Nov 2006 Pasqual Maragall i
Mira
(b.
1941)
PSC-PSOE
28 Nov 2006 - 27 Dec 2010
José Montilla i Aguilera
(b.
1955)
PSC-PSOE
27 Dec 2010 - 12 Jan
2016 Artur Mas i
Gavarró
(b. 1956) CDC-CiU;2015
CDC
12 Jan 2016 - 27 Oct 2017 Carles
Puigdemont i
Casamajó (b. 1962)
CDC;2016 PDECAT
(refused dismissal, left national territory 30 Oct 2017)
28 Oct 2017 - 17 May 2018 María Soraya
Sáenz de Santamaría (b. 1971)
PP
Antón
(f) (acting)
17 May 2018 - 30 Sep 2020
Joaquim "Quim" Torra i Pla
(b.
1962)
RI
30 Sep 2020
-
Pere Aragonès i Garcia
(b. 1982)
ERC
(acting to 24 May 2021)
Head of the Executive Council (Cap
del Consell Executiu)
19 Dec 1932 - 24 Jan 1933 Joan Lluhí i
Vallescà
(b. 1897 - d. 1944) ERC
Councillor Delegate (Conseller
Delegat)
24 Jan 1933 - 29 May 1933
Carles Pi i
Sunyer
(b. 1888 - d. 1971) ERC
Prime
Councillors (Conseller Primer)
29 May 1933
- 4 Oct 1933 Carles Pi i
Sunyer
(s.a.)
ERC
4 Oct 1933 - 3 Jan 1934 Miquel
Santaló i Parvorell
(b. 1888 - d.
1962) ERC
3 Jan 1934 - 29 Jul
1936 Post abolished
Prime Councillor, President of the Executive
Council
(Conseller
Primer, President del Consell Executiu)
29 Jul 1936 -
6 Aug 1936 Joan
Casanovas i Maristany
(s.a.)
ERC
President
of the Council (President
del Consell)
6 Aug
1936 - 26 Sep 1936 Joan Casanovas i
Maristany
(s.a.)
ERC
Prime Councillors (Conseller Primer)
26 Sep 1936 - 5 May
1937 Josep Tarradellas i Joan (1st
time)(s.a.)
ERC
5 May 1937 -
18 Jan 2001 Post abolished
18 Jan 2001 - 22 Dec 2003 Artur Mas i
Gavarró
(s.a.)
CDC-CiU
22 Dec 2003 - 20 Feb 2004 Josep Lluís
Carod-Rovira
(b.
1952)
ERC
23 Feb 2004 - 12 May 2006 Josep Bargalló
i
Valls
(b.
1958)
ERC
12 May 2006
Post abolished
Presidents of the Mancomunitat of
Catalonia [an
advisory body]
6
Apr 1914 - 1 Aug 1917 Enric Prat de la
Riba i Sarrà (b. 1870
- d. 1917) LR
1 Aug 1917 - 17 Jan 1924 Josep
Puig i Cadafalch
(b. 1867 - d. 1956) LR
24 Dec 1923 - 17 Jan 1924 Santiago
Estapé i Pagès
(b. 1876 - d. 1936) LR
(acting for absent Puig)
17 Jan 1924 - 30 Jan 1924 Carlos de
Lossada y Canterac
(b. 1862 - d. 1936) Mil
(military governor)
30 Jan 1924 - 20 Mar 1925 Alfons Sala
i Argemí,
conde (b.
1863 - d. 1945) UMN
de Egara
Catalan Government in
Exile (1939-1977)
Presidents of the Generalitat
5 Feb 1939 - 15 Oct 1940 Lluís
Companys i Jover
(s.a.)
ERC
(in Perpignan, then Paris, lastly La Baule-les-Pins,
France exile to 29 Aug 1940, then
a prisoner in Spain)
15 Oct 1940 - 7 May 1954 Josep Irla
i Bosch
(b. 1875 - d. 1958) ERC
(in France exile)
7 May 1954
- 24 Oct 1977 Josep Tarradellas i Joan
(s.a.)
ERC
(acting to 5 Aug 1954)
(in Paris, France exile to 23 Oct 1977)
Prime Councillors
13 May 1940 - 15 Oct 1940 Josep Pous i
Pagès (in Mexico exile)(b. 1873 - d. 1952)
Non-party
15 Oct 1940 - 21 Apr 1954 Vacant
21 Apr 1954 - 5 Aug 1954 Josep Tarradellas i
Joan (2nd time)
(s.a.)
ERC
(in Paris, France exile)
¹Between 1936 and 1937 Josep
Tarradellas i Joan (s.a.) carried out, by delegation of
Companys, his executive functions.
Val d'Aran (Aran Valley)
Adopted 2 Jan 1998
|
1220
The Val d'Aran is integrated into Kingdom of Aragón.
1313
Jaume II of Aragón grants administrative and political
autonomy
to the Val d'Arán
(Aran Valley).
1411
Val d'Aran integrated with Aragón,
with autonomy, by the Diputació
del General.
1834
Local autonomy abrogated by Spain. Val d'Aran
is incorporated into
Lleida province, and the Aranese government (Conselh
Generau) is
dissolved.
19-24 Oct
1944
Unión Nacional Española (UNE)
anti-Francoist guerrillas invade
the Val d'Aran and briefly
take control of several villages.
28 Jun
1990
Aranese made a co-official language in the Val d'Aran
(alongside
Catalan
and Castilian).
17 Jun 1991
Val d'Aran
(Valle de Arán = Vall d'Aran) comarca
in Lleida province
made an autonomous unique
territorial entity (administered by a
Conselh Generau) within
Catalonia by
the Generalitat of Catalonia
(by law
of 13 Jul 1990; expanded on 5
Feb 2015).
1 Oct 2017
Generalitat
of Catalonia self-determination
referendum was supported
by 84% Val d'Aran of voters but in a
limited 24% turn out.
Syndics of Aran (Síndic/Síndica
d'Aran)
17
Jun 1991 - 12 Jul 1993 Maria Pilar Busquet i Medan
(f) (b. 1937 - d. 2016) CDA
12 Jul 1993 -
7 Jun 1995 Amparo Serrano Iglesias (f)
UDA
7 Jun
1995 - 18 Jun 2007 Carlos Barrera Sánchez (1st
time) (b. 1950 - d. 2022) CDA
18 Jun 2007 -
18 Jun 2011 Francés Xavier "Paco" Boya Alòs
(b. 1960)
UA
(1st time)
18 Jun 2011 - 18
Jun 2019 Carlos Barrera Sánchez (2nd
time) (s.a.)
CDA
18 Jun 2019 - 29 Oct 2020 Francés Xavier
"Paco" Boya Alòs
(s.a.)
UA
(2nd time)
29 Oct 2020
-
Maria Vergés Pérez (f)
(b. 1978) UA
Ceuta
-
- Adopted 25 Jul
1923 Civil Flag
|
-
- Adopted 15 Mar 1995 State Flag
|
Map
of Ceuta
|
Hear
City Anthem
"Himno de la Ciudad de
Autónoma Ceuta"
(Hymn of Autonomous
City of Ceuta)
|
Text
of Local Anthem
Adopted 15 Mar
1995
|
Statute
of Autonomy
(15 Mar 1995)
|
Capital: Ceuta
|
Currency: Euro (EUR);
to 1 Jan 2002: Spanish
Peseta (ESP)
|
National Holiday:
Fiesta Nacional de España
(National Day)
(1958-87 Día de la Hispanidad)
--------------------------------
Local Holiday: 2 Sep (1415)
Día de Ceuta
(Day of Ceuta)
|
Population: 85,144
(2018)
|
GDP: $N/A
(included in Spain figures)
|
Exports: $N/A
Imports: $N/A
(included in Spain figures)
|
Ethnic groups:
Spanish, Catalonian,
Basque, Aragonese, Extremaduran,
and other
|
Total Police Force:
N/A
Defense is the Responsibility
of Spain
|
Religions: Roman
Catholic, Muslim,
and others
|
40 AD - 429
Part of the Roman
Empire (named Septem Fratres, usually
shortened to Septem or Septa).
429 - c.534
Part of the kingdom
of the Vandals.
534 - 709
Part the Eastern
Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
612 - 709
Under suzerainty of
the Visigothic kingdom.
709 - 931
Part of Umayyad (from 750,
Abbasid) Caliphate.
931 - 1026
Part of
Caliphate of Córdoba (named Sebta).
1026 - 1057
Part of Málaga Taifa state.
1057 - 1061
Part of Granada Taifa
state.
1061 - 1084
Ceuta a Taifa state,
separated from Granada.
1084 -
1090
Part of Granada Taifa state.
1090 - 1147
Part of Almoravid Empire.
1148 - 1232
Part of Almohad
Caliphate.
1232 - 1233
Part of Murcia Taifa state.
1233 - 1236
Ceuta a Taifa state,
separated from Murcia.
1236 - 1242
Part of Almohad Caliphate.
1242 - 1249
Occupied by Hafsid kingdom.
1249 - 1305
Ceuta a Taifa state.
1305 - 1309
Part of Emirate
of Granada.
21 Jul 1309 -
1310
Occupied by Morocco (Fez) with the help of Aragón.
1310 - 1314
Re-occupied
by Granada.
1314 - 1315
Re-occupied
by Morocco.
1315 - 1327
Ceuta a Taifa state, separated
from Morocco.
1327 -
1384
Part of Morocco.
1384 - 1387
Occupied by Granada.
1387 -
21 Aug 1415 Part of
Morocco.
21 Aug
1415
Ceuta a possession of Portugal.
17 Oct 1437
Following the failed siege of
Tangier, Portugal agrees to cede
Ceuta to
Morocco, but the treaty is not effected.
4 Sep 1479
Recognized as a Portuguese possession by Castile
in the Treaty of
Alcáçovas (and again by
Treaty of Tordesillas 7 Jun 1494).
18 Jul
1580
Ceuta, along with Portugal, become Spanish
possessions.
1 Dec
1640
Ceuta remains a Spanish possession
after the independence of
Portugal.
1 Jan
1668
Recognized by as Spanish territory by Portugal in the
Treaty of Lisbon.
1 Jan 1668
Isla Perejil a Spanish
possession.
23 Oct 1694 - 1720
Under siege by Morocco.
1721 - Apr 1727
Under siege by Morocco.
1790 - 1791
Under siege by Morocco.
6 May 1808 - 11 Dec 1813 Ceuta
remains loyal to deposed Bourbón King Fernando VII
during
the
French occupation of Spain.
24 Mar 1810 -
Jul 1814 Ceuta garrisoned by British
troops, Spanish administration in
the
name of Fernando VII continues.
18 Dec 1847 - 27 Nov 1912 Ceuta,
Melilla, Vélez de la Gomera,
and Peñón de Alhucemas
united
as Spanish Captaincy-general of North Africa (Capitanía
General de las
Posesiones de África).
26 Apr
1860
Recognized as Spanish possession by Morocco in Treaty
of Wad-Ras
(Tetuan).
1905
Spanish government
approved statutes of autonomy for Ceuta.
30 Mar 1912
Recognized as Spanish possession by Morocco
in the Treaty of Fez.
27 Nov
1912
Ceuta subordinated as a commandancia
of Spanish Morocco (see Morocco).
9
Dec 1931
According to the Spanish Constitution of
the (Second) Spanish
Republic, Ceuta autonomy is recognized.
10 Jul 1934 - 22 Feb 1968 Post of
Governor-general of the Plazas of
Sovereignty (Plazas de
Soberanía)
in North Africa (held by Spanish High Commissioner
for Morocco until 10 Aug 1956).
17 Jul
1936
Ceuta taken over by the Nationalists.
7 Apr
1956
Ceuta a presidio of Spain
(part of Cádiz province).
Jun
1962
Moroccan partial blockade of Ceuta (and Melilla).
Mar
1983
Moroccan blockade of Ceuta (and Melilla).
15 Mar
1995
Autonomous City of Ceuta (Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta)(composed
of the
city of
Ceuta, separated from Cádiz
province)(by 13 Mar 1995 law).
Captains-general
2 Sep 1415 - 1424
Pedro de
Meneses, conde de (b.
1370 - d. 1437)
Viana do Alentejo (1st time)
1424 - 1425
Rui Gomes da
Silva
(b. c.1391 - d. c.1450)
1425 - 1430
Pedro de
Meneses, conde de
(s.a.)
Villareal
(2nd time)
1430 -
1434
Duarte de Meneses, conde de
(b. 1414 - d. 1464)
de
Viana (1st time) (interim)
1434 - 22 Sep
1437
Pedro de Meneses, conde de
(s.a.)
Villareal (3rd time)
1437 -
1438
Duarte de Meneses, conde de
(s.a.)
Viana (2nd time)(interim)
1438 - 2/3 Jun
1445 Fernando
(Fernão) de Noronha, (b. 1378 - d.
1445)
conde
de Villareal
1445 -
1447
António Pacheco (1st time)(interim)
1447 - 1448
Fernando (Fernão) de Noronha,
(b. 1403 - d. 1478)
conde de Arroiolos (1st time)
1448
António Pacheco (2nd
time)(interim)
1448 - 1452
Fernando (Fernão) de Noronha,
(s.a.)
conde de Arroiolos (2nd time)
1453 -
1460
Sancho de Noronha, conde
(b. c.1390 - d. 1471)
de Mierra (1st time)
1456
Fernando de Portugal,
duque (b. 1433
- d. 1470)
de Viseu
e de Beja
1456 -
1460
Sancho de Noronha,
conde
(s.a.)
de Mierra (2nd time)
1461 - 1461
Pedro de Meneses, conde de
(b. 1425 - d. 1499)
Villareal (1st time)
1462 - 1463
Pedro de Albuquerque (interim)
1463 - 1464
Pedro de Meneses, conde de
(s.a.)
Villareal (2nd time)
1464 -
1479
João Rodrigues de Vasconcelos
(b. 1410 - d. ....)
Ribeiro
1479 -
1481
Rui Mendes de Vasconcellos
Ribeiro
1481 -
1487
João de Noronha, senhor de
(b. 1420 - d. ....)
Sortelha
1487 -
1491
António de Noronha, conde
(b. 1464 - d. 1551)
de Linhares
1491 -
1509
Fernando (Fernão) de Meneses,
(b. 1463 - d. 15..)
marquês de Villareal
1509 -
1512
Pedro Barba Alardo
1512 -
1517
Pedro de Meneses, marquês de
(b. 1486 - d. 15..)
Villareal (1st time)
1518 -
1519
João da Silva, conde de Portalegre (b. c.1480 - d. 15..)
1519 -
1521
Gomes da Silva de Vasconcellos
(1st time)
1522 -
1524
João de Noronha
(b. 1485 - d. 1524)
1524 -
1525
Pedro de Meneses, marquês de
(s.a.)
Villareal (2nd time)
1525 -
1529
Gomes da Silva de Vasconcellos
(2nd time)
1529 -
1539
Nuno Álvares Pereira de Noronha (b. 1490 -
d. af.1547)
(1st time)
1540 -
1549
Affonso de Noronha (1st time)
(b. 1510 - d. c.1586)
1549
Nuno Álvares Pereira de Noronha (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1549
Affonso de Noronha (2nd
time) (s.a.)
1549
Antão de Noronha
(b. 1520 - d. 1569)
1549 -
1550
Martim Correia da Silva (1st time) (d. 1582)
1550 -
1553
Pedro de Meneses
(b. 1486 - d. 1553)
1553
Pedro da Cunha (1st time)
1553
João Rodriges Pereira
1553 -
1555
Martim Correia da Silva (2nd time) (s.a.)
1555 -
1557
Jorge Vieira
1557 -
1562
Fernando (Fernão) de Meneses
(1st time)
1562
Joáo Alvares de Azevedo
1562 -
1563
Miguel de Meneses, marquês
(b. 1520 - d. ....)
de Villa Real
1563 -
1564
Fernando (Fernão) de Meneses
(2nd
time)
1564 -
1565
Pedro da Cunha (2nd time)
1566 -
1567
Francisco Pereira
1567 -
1574
Manuel de Meneses e Noronha, (b.
c.1537 - d. 1590)
duque, marquês e conde de
Villa
Real,
conde de Alcoutim e de
Valença (1st time)
12 Oct 1574 -
1577 Diogo
Lopes da Franca
(= Diego Lopez de Afranca)
1577 -
1578
Manuel de Meneses e Noronha,
(s.a.)
duque, marquês e conde de
Villa
Real,
conde de Alcoutim e de
Valença (2nd time)
1578 -
1580
Dionísio Pereira
1580 -
1586
Jorge Pessenha
1586 - 15 Aug
1591 Gil
Annes da Costa
(d. 1612)
(or Gil Vaz da Costa)
15 Aug 1591 - 1592
Francisco de Andrade
(b. 1540 - d.
1614)
1592 -
1594
Miguel Luís de Meneses,
(b. 1565 - d. 1637)
marquês e conde de Villa
Real,
conde de Alcoutim, Valença e
Valladares, duque de Caminha
(1st time)
1594 -
1597
Mendo Rodrigues de Ledesma
1597 -
1601
Miguel Luís de Meneses,
(s.a.)
marquês e conde de Vila Real,
conde de Alcoutim, Valença e
Valladares, duque de Caminha
(2nd time)
1602 -
1605
Affonso de Noronha
(b. c.1550 - d.
1627)
1605 - 1616
Miguel Luís de Meneses,
(s.a.)
duque de Caminha (3rd time)
1616 -
1622
Luís de Noronha e Meneses,
(b. 1570 - d. 1641)
conde de Villa Real
1623
Miguel Luís de Meneses,
(s.a.)
duque de Caminha (4th time)
(interim)
1623 -
1624
António da Costa de Albuquerque
1624
Twelve Knights of Ceuta
(doze cavalleiros de Ceuta)
1624 -
1625
Fernando de Mascarenhas, conde (b.
c.1610 - d. 1651)
de Torre
1625
Gonçalo Correia Alcoforado
(d. 1642)
(interim)
1625 -
1626
Miguel de Meneses, duque
(s.a.)
de Caminha (5th time)
1627
Dinís de Mascarenhas de Lencastre
(interim)
1627 -
1634
Jorge de Mendonça Pessanha
(d. 1636)
1634 -
1636
Brás Telles de Meneses
1637
Fernando (Fernão) Telles de Meneses
(interim)
1637 -
1640
Francisco de
Almeida
(b. c.1580 - d. 1641)
Governors
1640 -
1641
Francisco de Almeida (interim)
(s.a.)
5 Feb 1641 -
1644 Juan
Fernández de Córdoba y
(b. c.1595 - d. 1664)
Coalla, marqués de Miranda de
Auta (=
Joáo Fernandes de Cordova)
1645 -
1646
Luis de Lencastre, marqués de (b.
1609 - d. 1661)
Malagón
(= Luiz
de Lencastre, marquês de Malagon)
1646 -
1653
Juan Suárez de Alarcón y Mello, (b. 1600 -
d. 1669)
(from 1652) marqués de Torcifal
(Turcifal) e conde Torres Vedras
1653 -
1661
José Fernández de Sotomayor y Lima,(b. c.1600 - d. ....)
marqués de Tenorio
(= Joáo Fernandes de Souto Maior
e Lima, marquês de Tenorio)
1662 -
1665
Jerónimo de Noronha, conde de (b.
c.1615 - d .....)
Castello Mendo
1665 - 1672
Pedro de Acuña y Meneses, marqués (b. c.1607 - d.
1674)
de Asentar
(= Pedro da Cunha, marquês de Santar)
1672 - 4 Jul
1677
Francisco Suárez de Alarcón,
conde de Torres Vedras
4 Jul 1677 -
1677
Antonio de Medina Chacón y
(d. 1694)
Ponce de León, bispo de Ceuta
(1st time)(interim)
1677 -
1678
Diego de Portugal
1678 -
1679
Antonio de Medina Chacón y
(s.a.)
Ponce de León, bispo de Ceuta
(2nd
time)
1679 -
1681
Juan Arias-Dávila Pacheco y
(b. 1642 - d. 1711)
Téllez-Girón,
conde de
Puño en Rostro
9 Aug 1681 -
1689
Francisco Baltasar de Velasco y (b. 1649 -
d. 1716)
Tovar,
marqués de Berlanga
1689 - 1 Dec
1692
Francisco Bernardo Varona
1 Dec 1692 -
1695
Sebastián González de Andía y
Irarrazábal Álvarez de Toldeo (b. 16.. - d.
1698)
Enríquez de Guzman, marqués
de Valparaíso y visconde de
Santa Clara
1695 -
1698
Melchor de Avellaneda
Sandoval (b. 1653 - d. 1719)
Rojas y Ramiro, marqués de
Torremayor, marqués de
Valdecañas
Jul 1698 -
1702
Francisco del Castillo Fajardo, (b. 1642 -
d. 1716)
marqués de Villadarias
Mar 1702 - Apr 1702
Antonio de Zuñiga y la Cerda
(1st time)(interim)
Apr 1702 - 4 Oct 1704 José
de Agulló y de Pinós,
(b. 16.. - d. 1704)
marqués de Gironella
1704 - 1705
Antonio de Zuñiga y la Cerda
(2nd time)(interim)
1 Jan 1705 -
1709
Juan Francisco Manrique de Arana (b. 1655 - d.
1736)
e Iraola (1st time)
1709 - 12 Aug
1715
Gonzalo Chacón y Orellana Mendoza (b. c.1651 - d.
1722)
de Toledo Sandoval y Rojas
1715 -
1719
Francisco Fernández de Ribadeo
(1st time)
26 Mar 1719 - 25 Jul 1719 Francisco Pérez
Manchego (interim)
1719 - 15 May 1720
Luis Reggio Branciforte, príncipe (b.
1677 - d. 1757)
de
Campoflorido
15 May 1720 - 28 Sep 1720 Juan Francisco
Manrique de Arana (s.a.)
e Iraola (2nd time)(interim)
1720 - 15 Sep
1725
Francisco Fernández de Ribadeo
(2nd time)
15 Sep 1725 -
1731
Manuel Luis de Orleáns, conde (b.
1677 - d. 1740)
de
Charny
1731 -
1738
Álvaro de Navia y Osorio y Vigil, (b. 1684 - d.
1732)
marqués de Santa Cruz, visconde
do Porto
28 Jun 1738 - 21 Oct 1739 Antonio Manso y
Maldonado
(b. c.1670 - d. 1755?)
21 Oct 1739 -
1745
Pedro de Vargas Maldonado López (b. 1680 -
d. 1758)
de
Carrizosa y Perea, marqués
de
Campofuerte
11 Jul 1745 - 9 Nov 1745 Juan
Antonio Tineo y Fuertes (b. 169. -
d. 1746)
9 Nov 1745 -
1746
Juan José de Palafox y Centurión (b. 1705 - d.
1764)
2 May 1746 -
1751
José Joaquín Orcasitas y Oleaga (b. 1689 -
d. 17..)
1751
Pedro Loaysa, marqués de la
Matilla
(interim)
21 Jun 1751 - 1755
Carlos
Francisco de Croix, (b. 1699
- d. 1786)
marqués de Croix
1755
Juan de Urbina
(interim)
1754 - 1 Oct 1759
Miguel
Agustín Carreño Roca de (b. 1680 - d.
1759)
Castro y Muñoz
1759 - 1760
José Sant Just (interim)
17 Apr 1760 - 21 Mar 1763 Juan Wanmarch Lumen
de la Vie,
marqués de Wanmarch (Warmack)
21 Mar 1763 - 2 Oct 1776 Diego María de
Osorio
1776 - 1783
Francisco Antonio Tineo, marqués (b. 1713 -
d. 1781)
de Casa Tremañes
1783 - 1784
Domingo Joaquín de Salcedo y
(b. 1727 - d. 1798)
Castellanos
1784 - 1791
Miguel Porcel y Manrique de Arana, (b. 1719 - d. 1795)
conde
de las Lomas
1791 -
1792
José de Sotomayor y Echevarría
1792 - 1794
José de Urrutia y de las Casas
(b. 1739 - d. 1803)
1794 - 1795
Miguel
Álvarez de Sotomayor y (b.
1723 - d. 1819)
Flores, conde de Santa Clara
1793
Diego de la Peña (interim)
1795 -
1798
José
Vasallo
(b. c.1732 - d. 1798)
1798
Ramon de Navas (1st time)(interim)
1798 -
1801
Juan Bautista de Castro
1801 - 4 Jan
1805
Antonio Ferrero
(d. 1805)
1805
Ramon de Navas (2nd time)(interim)
1805
José
Ampudia Valdés (interim)
(b. 1741 - d. 1809)
1805 - 18 Jul 1807
Francisco José Cirilo de Orta y (b.
1744 - d. 1807)
Arcos
18 Jul 1807 - 31 Jul 1807 Manuel de
Clairac (1st time)
(acting)
31 Jul 1807 -
1808
Ramón de Carvajal y
Urrutia (b.
1762 - d. 1832)
1808
Manuel de Clairac
(2nd time)
(interim)
1808 -
1809
Carlos Luján (interim)
16 Jan 1809 - 6 May 1809 Manuel de
Clairac (3rd time)
(acting)
1809 -
1810
Francisco Carlos Gabriel de
(b. 1752 - d. 1818)
Gand-Vialin, vizconde de Gand
(1st time)
5 Mar 1810 - 20 Feb 1813
José María de Alós
(b. 1765 - d.
1844)
24 Mar 1810 - c.Jun 1813 Sir John
Fraser
(b. 1760 - d.
1843)
(British commandant)
c.Jun 1813 - Jul 1814
Charles Griffiths
(b. 1763 - d. 1829)
(British commandant)
1813
José María Lastres y Mora
(b. 1752 - d. 1829)
(interim)
1813
Francisco Carlos Gabriel de
(s.a.)
Gand-Vialin, vizconde de Gand
(2nd time)
1813
Pedro Grimarest (1st time)(acting) (b. 1759 - d. 1841)
1813
Andres Mendoza
(interim)
1813 -
1814
Fernando Gómez de Butrón (1st time)(b. 1770 - d. 1852)
1814 -
1815
Pedro Grimarest (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1815
Francisco Antonio de
Villar y
Herrera (1st time)(interim)
1815 -
1816
Luis Antonio Flores
1816
Francisco Antonio de Villar y
Herrera (2nd time)(interim)
1816 -
1818
Juan de Potons y Morica
1818
Francisco Antonio de Villar y
Herrera (3rd time)(interim)
1818 - 1819
José Miranda y Cabezón (1st time) (b. c.1778 - d.
1854)
1819
Pablo Menacho y
Tutlló (interim) (b. 1756 - d. 1830)
1819 - 1820
Vicente Rosique
(interim)
1820
Francisco Antonio de Villar y
Herrera (4th time)(interim)
1820 -
1822
Fernando Gómez de Butrón (2nd time)(s.a.)
1822 -
1823
Álvaro María Chacón
1823
Manuel Fernández (interim)
1823
Antonio Quiroga (interim)
(b. 1784 - d. 1841)
1823
Francisco Antonio de Villar y
Herrera (5th time)(interim)
1823 -
1824
Juan María Muñoz Manito (1st time) (b. 1761 - d. 1848)
1824 -
1826
José Miranda y Cabezón (2nd time) (s.a.)
1826
Joaquín Bureau (interim)
1826
Julio O'Neil (interim)
1826 - 1831
Juan María Muñoz Manito (2nd time) (s.a.)
1831
Juan Cortés (interim)
1831 - 1832
Carlos Ullmann
(b. 1778 - d. 1856)
1832 - 1833
Francisco de Haro
1833 -
1835
Mateo Ramírez de Arellano
1835
Pablo Valiñán
(interim)
1835
Carlos Espinosa (interim)
1835
José Villamil
(interim)
1835 -
1836
Joaquín Gómez y Ansa
(b. 1773 - d. 1838)
1836 -
1837
Francisco Sanjuanena Gaitán
(b. 1787 - d. 1844)
1837
Pedro Valiñán
(interim)
1837
Bernardo Tacón y Rosique (interim) (b. 1787 - d. 1843)
1837 -
1844
José María Rodríguez de Vera
1844
Francisco de Paula
Warleta
(b. 1786 - d. 1867)
1844
Juan Prim y Prats (interim)
(b. 1814 - d. 1870)
1844
Antonio Marui (interim)
1844 - 1848
Antonio Ordoñez
Governors (also Governors-general of the
Captaincy-General of North Africa)
1848 - 1850
Antonio Ros de
Olano
(b. 1808 - d. 1886)
1850
Trinidad Balboa
(interim) (b. 1789 -
d. 1853)
1851 - 1853
Cayetano Urbina y Daoiz
(b. 1797 - d. 1867)
1853 - 1854
Joaquín Aguando
1854 -
1857
Mariano Rebagliato Pescetto
(b. 1800 - d. 1884)
1857 -
1858
Carlos Tolrá y Marsella
(b. 1789 - d. 1863)
1858 - 1859
Manuel Gasset y
Mercader
(b. 1814 - d. 1887)
1859 -
1864
Ramón Gómez y Pulido (1st time) (b.
1811 - d. 1885)
1864 -
1865
Manuel Álvarez-Maldonado y Loriga (b. 1808 - d.
1888)
1865 -
1866
Ramón Gómez y Pulido (2nd time) (s.a.)
1866
Antonio Peláez Campomanes
(b. 1811 - d. 1892)
(interim)
1866 -
1868
José Orive Sanz
(b. 1808 - d. 1876)
1868
Antonio del Rey y
Caballero (b.
1814 - d. 1886)
(interim)
1868 -
1870
Joaquín Cristón y Gasatin
1870 -
1872
Enrique Serrano y Dolz
1872 -
1873
Carlos Sáenz y Delcourt
(b. 1817 - d 1882)
1873
Manuel Keller y García
1873 -
1875
Fulgencio Gavilá y Solá
1875 -
1876
Pedro Sartorius y Tapia
(b. 1818 - d. 1900)
1876 -
1877
Fernando del Piño y Fernández (b.
1814 - d. 1877)
Villamil
1877
Juan García Torres
(b. 1813 - d. 1877)
1877 -
1878
Victoriano de López Pinto y Torre
Marin
1878 -
1879
José María Velasco Postigo
(b. 1818 - d. 1884)
1879 -
1881
José Aizpurúa y Lorries Fontecha
1881 -
1883
José Merelo y
Calvo
(b. 1827 - d. 1901)
1883
José Pascual de Bonanza y Soler (b. 1834 -
d. 1892)
de Cornellá
1883 -
1889
José López Pinto y Marin Reina
(b. 1827 - d. ....)
1889 -
1891
Narciso de Fuentes y
Sánchez (b. 1850 -
d. 1891)
1891 -
1894
Miguel Correa y
García
(b. 1832 - d. 1900)
1894 - 1897
Rafael Correa y García
(b. 1832 - d. 1899)
1897 -
1901
Jacinto de León y Barreda
(b. 1840 - d. 19..)
1901 -
1903
Manuel de Aguilar y Diosdado
(b. 1840 - d. 1913)
1903 -
1907
Francisco Fernández Bernal
(b. 1847 - d. 1907)
1907 -
1908
Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor (b.
1844 - d. 1912)
y Flóres
2 May 1908 - Apr
1910 José García Aldave
(b.
1845 - d. 1936)
1910 - 27 Nov
1912
Felipe Alfau y
Mendoza
(b. 1845 - d. 1937)
Mayors (Alcaldes)
1912 - 1913
José Alvarez Sanz
1913 - 1914
José Trujillo Zafra (1st
time)
1914
Restituto Palacios Garrido
1914 - 1915
Demetrio Guillén Conde
1915 - 1917
José Trujillo Zafra (2nd time)
1917 - 1918
Baldomero Blond Llanos
1918 - 1919
Joaquín García de
la Torre y
Almenara
1919 - 1923
Isidoro Martínez Durán
Chairmen of the Civic-Military Municipal
Junta
1923 - 1927
Agustin Gómez Morato
(b. 1879 - d. 1952)
1927
José García Benítez
1927 - 1931
José Rosende Martín
Mayors (Alcaldes)
1923
Demetrio Casares Vázquez
1923 - Nov 1923
Eduardo Álvarez Ardanuy
27 Nov 1923 - 1924 Remigio
González Lozana
1924 - Sep 1926
Ricardo Rodríguez
Macedo
6 Sep 1926 - 1927
Manuel Matres Toril
(b. 1875 - d. 1828)
1927 - 1928
José
García Benítez
1928 - 1931
José Rosende Martín
22 Apr 1931 - 4 Jun 1931 Antonio
López Sánchez-Prado (b. 1888
- d. 1936)
(1st time)
Jun 1931 - Oct 1931 Manuel
Olivencia Amor
(b. 1901 - d. 1962)
13 Oct 1931 - 22 Jan 1932 Eduardo
Pérez Ortiz
(b. 1865 - d. 1954) UR
Jan 1932 - Sep 1933
David Valverde Soriano
(b. 1890 - d. 1937) PSOE
Sep 1933 - Feb 1936
José Victori Goñalons
20 Feb 1936 - 18 Jul 1936 Antonio López
Sánchez-Prado
(s.a.)
PSOE
(2nd time)
1936 - 1937
José Tejero Ruiz
1937 - 1940
Fernando López-Cantí
y Sánchez
1940 - 1941
Jacinto Ochoa
Ochoa
(d. 1962)
1941 - 1944
José Vidal Fernández
22 Feb 1944 - 15 May 1946
Francisco Ruiz Sánchez (1st time)
1946 - 1950
José Rojas Feigenspán
(Faigeauspan)(b. 1880 - d. 19..)
1950
Francisco López Bravo
1950 - 1957
Vicente García Arrazola
1957 - 1961
Francisco Ruiz Sánchez (2nd
time)
1961 - 1967
Alberto Ibañez Trujillo
(b. 1890 - d. 1993)
1967 - 1972
José Zurrón Rodríguez
(b. 1920 - d. 2008)
1972 - 1978
Alfonso Sotelo
Azorín
(b. 1931 - d. 1997)
1978 - 1979
Ricardo Muñoz Rodríguez
(1st time) (b. 1940? - d. 2011) UCD
1979
Eduardo Hernández
Lobillo (interim)
1979 - 1981
Clemente Calvo Pecino
(b. 1925- d.
....) Ind
1981 - 1983
Ricardo Muñoz Rodríguez
(2nd time) (s.a.)
UCD
1983 - 1985
Francisco Fraiz Armada (1st time)
(b. 1940)
PSOE
1985 - 1987
Aurelio Puya Rivas
(b. 1950)
PSPC
1987 - 1991
Fructuoso Miaja Sánchez
(b. 1917 - d. 2009)
PSOE
1991 - Feb 1994
Francisco Fraiz Armada (2nd time) (s.a.)
PFC
Feb 1994 - 19 Jun 1995
Basilio Fernández
López
(b. 1952)
PFC
Mayor-Presidents
19 Jun 1995 - 24 Jul 1996 Basilio
Fernández
López
(s.a.)
PFC
24 Jul 1996 - 26 Aug 1999 Jesús Cayetano
Fortes Ramos
(b. 1952?)
PP
26 Aug 1999 - 7 Feb 2001 Antonio
Sampietro Casarramona (b.
1953)
GIL
7 Feb 2001
-
Juan Jesús Vivas
Lara
(b. 1953)
PP
Plazas de Soberanía (Ceuta, Melilla,
Alhucemas, Chafarinas, and Peñón de Vélez)
Governors-general
20 Jul 1934 - 7 Apr 1956 the High
Commissioners of
Spanish Morocco (see Morocco)
10 Aug 1956 - 21 Nov 1963 Alfredo Galera
Paniagua
(b. 1899 - d. 1990) Mil
21 Nov 1963 - 10 Sep 1964 Ramón Gotarredona
Prats
(b. 1898 - d. 1968) Mil
10 Sep 1964 - 28 Oct 1966 Cástor Manzanera
Holgado
Mil
28 Oct 1966 - 22 Feb 1968 José Muslera
González-Burgos (b.
1902 - d. 1972) Mil
Territorial Dispute: Ceuta and Isla
Perejil are claimed by Morocco.
Extremadura
-
- From 1977, Adopted 27 Feb 1983
Civil Flag
|
-
- Adopted 27 Feb 1985 State
Flag
|
9 Sep
1978
Regional Junta of Extremadura (Junta
Regional de Extremadura)
formed to administer the province of Badajoz
and Cáceres
(by law of 13 Jun 1978).
27 Feb
1983
Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Comunidad
Autónoma de
Extremadura)
established (composed of the provinces of Badajoz
and Cáceres)(by law of 25 Feb 1983).
Presidents of the Regional Junta of Extremadura
9 Sep 1978 - 22 Dec 1980
Luis Jacinto Ramallo
García (b.
1938)
UCD
22 Dec 1980 - 20 Dec 1982 Manuel
Bermejo
Hernández
(b. 1936 - d. 2009) UCD
20 Dec 1982 - 8 Jun
1983 Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Ibarra (b.
1948)
PSOE
Presidents of the Junta of
Extremadura
8 Jun 1983 - 28 Jun 2007
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Ibarra (s.a.)
PSOE
28 Jun 2007 - 7 Jul 2011 Guillermo
Fernández Vara
(b. 1958) PSOE
(1st time)
7 Jul 2011 - 4 Jul 2015 José Antonio
Monago Terraza (b. 1966)
PP
4 Jul 2015 - 17 Jul 2023 Guillermo Fernández
Vara (s.a.)
PSOE
(2nd time)
17 Jul 2023
-
María Guardiola Martín
(f) (b.
1978)
PP
Galicia
-
- From 1978, Adopted 18 May
1981
- Civil Flag
|
-
- Adopted 29 May 1984 State
Flag
|
28 Jun
1936
Draft Statute of Autonomy of Galicia
is approved by referendum
99.2%, and is submitted to the
Spanish parliament on 15 Jul 1936
(which
does not act due to the Civil War).
30 Jun 1936
Executive Commitee
of Central Committee of Galician Autonomy
established to organize the autonomy.
18/21 Jul
1936
Nationalist forces occupied Galicia.
11 Apr 1978
Junta of Galicia (Junta de Galicia = Xunta
de Galicia) formed to
administer the municipalities within the provinces of La
Coruña/
A Coruña, Lugo,
Orense/Ourense and Pontevedra (by law of 16
1978, effective 18 Mar 1978).
18 May 1981
Galicia (or Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia/Comunidade
Autónoma de
Galicia), organized as an autonomous
community (composed of the
provinces of La Coruña/A Coruña, Lugo, Orense/Ourense
and
Pontevedra)(by organic law of 6 Apr 1981).
President of Executive Commitee of Central
Committee of Galician Autonomy
30 Jun 1936 - 18 Jul 1936 Ángel Casal
Gosenje
(b. 1895 - d. 1936) PG
Presidents of the Junta of Galicia
(Presidente de la Junta
de Galicia = Presidente da Xunta de Galicia)
11 Apr 1978 - 9 Jun 1979 Antonio Rosón
Pérez
(b. 1911 - d. 1986) UCD
(formal inauguration 18 Apr
1978)
9 Jun 1979 - 21 Jan 1982 José Quiroga
Suárez
(b. 1920 - d. 2006) UCD
21 Jan 1982 - 29 Sep
1987 Gerardo Fernández
Albor
(b. 1917 - d. 2018) AP
29 Sep 1987 - 5 Feb
1990 Fernando Ignacio González
Laxe (b.
1952)
PSdeG-PSOE
5 Feb 1990 - 2 Aug
2005 Manuel Fraga
Iribarne
(b. 1922 - d. 2012) PP
2 Aug 2005 - 18 Apr 2009
Emilio Pérez
Touriño
(b.
1948)
PSdeG-PSOE
18 Apr 2009 - 14 May
2022 Alberto Núñez Feijóo
(b. 1961)
PP
14 May 2022
-
Alfonso Rueda
Valenzuela
(b.
1968)
PP
Council of Galicia in Exile (1944-1980)
-
Presidents of the Council of Galicia (Presidente
do Consello de Galiza)
15 Nov 1944 - 7 Jan 1950
Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez (b.
1886 - d. 1950) PG
Castelao
(in Montevideo, Uruguay; then Buenos Aires exile)
Jan 1950 - 12 Oct 1980
Antón Hipólito Alonso
Ríos (b.
1887 - d. 1980) PG
"siñor Afranio"
(in Buenos Aires, Argentina exile)
La Rioja
-
- Adopted 9 Jul 1982 Civil
Flag
|
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- Adopted 9 Jul 1982 State
Flag
|
9 Jul
1982
Autonomous Community of La Rioja (Comunidad Autónoma
de La Rioja)
(composed of province of La Rioja)(by Organic Law of 9
Jun 1982).
Presidents of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja
26 Aug 1982 - 27 Jan 1983 Luis Javier Rodríguez
Moroy (b.
1944)
UCD;Dec 1982 PRP
(provisional)
27 Jan 1983 - 30 May 1983 Antonio Rodríguez
Basulto (b. 1945)
UCD
(provisional)
30 May 1983 - 27 Jul 1987 José María de Miguel
Gil
(b.
1950)
PSOE
27 Jul 1987 - 9 Jan 1990
Joaquín Espert Pérez-Caballero (b.
1938 - d. 2023) AP
9 Jan 1990 - 3 Jul
1995 José Ignacio Pérez
Sáenz
(b.
1951)
PSOE
3 Jul 1995 - 8 Jul
2015 Pedro María Sanz
Alonso
(b.
1953)
PP
8 Jul 2015 - 29 Aug 2019
José Ignacio Ceniceros González (b.
1956)
PP
29 Aug 2019 - 30 Jun 2023
Concepción "Concha" Andreu
(b. 1967)
PSOE
Rodríguez (f)
30 Jun 2023
-
Gonzalo Capellán de
Miguel (b.
1972)
PP
Madrid
7 Nov 1936 - 23 Apr 1937 Madrid Defense
Junta formed after transfer of the Republican
government to Valencia.
28 Mar 1939
Nationalist
forces occupy Madrid.
1 Mar
1983
Community of Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid)(composed
of the
province of Madrid), established as an autonomous
community
(by organic law of 25 Feb 1983).
President of the Madrid Defense (from 25 Nov 1936,
Delegate Defense) Junta
7 Nov 1936 - 23 Apr 1937 José Miaja
Menant
(b. 1878 - d. 1958) Mil
Presidents of the Community of Madrid
14 Jun 1983 - 29 Jun 1995 Joaquín Leguina
Herrán
(b.
1941)
PSOE
29 Jun 1995 - 20 Nov 2003 Alberto
Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez (b.
1958)
PP
20 Nov 2003 - 17 Sep 2012
Esperanza Aguirre y Gil
de (b.
1952)
PP
Biedma (f)
17 Sep 2012 - 25 Jun 2015 Ignacio González González
(b. 1960)
PP
(acting
to 27 Sep 2012)
25 Jun 2015 - 25 Apr 2018
Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas (f) (b.
1964)
PP
25 Apr 2018 - 11 Apr 2019 Ángel
Garrido García
(b. 1964)
PP
(acting to 21 May 2018)
11 Apr 2019 - 19 Aug 2019 Pedro
Manuel Rollán Ojeda (acting)(b.
1969)
PP
19 Aug 2019
-
Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso (f) (b.
1978)
PP
Melilla
-
- Adopted 15 Mar 1995
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Map
of Melilla
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Hear City Anthem
"Himno de la Ciudad de
Autónoma Melilla"
(Hymn of Autonomous
City of Melilla)
|
Text of Local Anthem
Adopted 15 Mar
1995
|
Statute
of Autonomy
(15 Mar 1995)
|
Capital: Melilla
|
Currency: Euro (EUR);
to 1 Jan 2002: Spanish
Peseta (ESP)
|
National Holiday:
Fiesta Nacional de España
(National Day)
(1958-87 Día de la Hispanidad)
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Local Holiday:
17 Sep (1496)
Día de Melilla
(Day of Melilla)
|
Population: 86,384
(2018)
|
GDP: $N/A
(included in Spain figures)
|
Exports: $N/A
Imports: $N/A
(included in Spain figures)
|
Ethnic groups:
Spanish, Catalonian,
Basque, Aragonese, Extremaduran,
and other
|
Total Police Force:
N/A
Defense is the Responsibility
of Spain
|
Religions: Roman
Catholic, Muslim,
and others
|
534 - 614
Part the
Eastern Roman (Byzantine)
Empire.
614 - 700
Part of Visigoth kingdom.
700 -
789
Part of Umayyad (from 750, Abbasid) Caliphate.
789 -
922
Part of Fez (Morocco)
under Idrisid dynasty.
859
Melilla
is sacked by the Normans.
922 - 926
Occupied by Fatimid Caliphate.
926 - 1030
Part of Caliphate of
Córdoba.
1030 - 1080
Kingdom (Taifa) of Melilla,
independent of Córdoba.
1063 - 1064
Occupied by Málaga (Taifa)
kingdom.
1080 - 1141
Part of Almoravid Empire.
1141 - 1272
Part of Almohad Caliphate.
1272 - 1465
Part of Banu Marin (Benimerin
empire).
1465 - 1496
Disputed between Kingdom of Fez and the
Kingdom of Tlemcen; in
in Jul 1493, the Sheikh of Melilla visits Madrid and
later the
Melilla is burned.
17 Sep 1496
Castile (Spanish) possession
(feudal grant to the family of the
Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, duque de Medina
Sidonia to 1556).
Apr 1506 - Jan 1533
Cazaza on the western coast of Cape Three
Forks (18km from Melilla)
part of
Melilla.
23 Jul
1508
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera a Spanish possession (under
Melilla).
18 Sep
1509
By Treaty of Sintra Castillian possesion recognized by
Portugal.
1 Oct 1540
Isla de Alborán a
Spanish possession (under Almeria).
7 Jun
1556
Melilla a Spanish crown possession (under the Council of
Castile).
28 Aug
1673 Peñón
de Alhucemas a Spanish possession (under
Melilla).
17 Aug 1715 - 11
Feb 1716 Under siege by Morocco.
9 Dec 1774 - 19 Mar 1775 Under siege by
Morocco.
6 May 1808 - 11 Dec 1813 Melilla
remains loyal to deposed Bourbón King Fernando VII
during
the French occupation of Spain.
1810 - 30 May
1814
Occupied by U.K., but Spanish administration in the name
of
Fernando
VII continues.
20 Dec 1838 - 25
Mar 1839 "Carlists" in Melilla revolt and form a
government in the name
of Carlos (V)(under royalist blockade from 10 Feb 1839).
20 Jul 1847
Islas Chafarinas a
Spanish possession.
18 Dec 1847 - 27
Nov 1912 Part of Spanish Captaincy-general of
North Africa (see Ceuta).
26 Apr
1860
Recognized as Spanish possession by Morocco in Treaty of
Wad-Ras
(Tetuan).
29 Sep 1868 - 7 Oct 1868 Creation of the
General Command of Ceuta and other possessions of
Africa
in the Mediterranean (Comandancia General de Ceuta y
demás
posesiones de Africa en el Mediterráneo)(not
effected).
28 Oct 1893
Creation of commandáncia general
of Melilla.
1 Jun
1910
Creation of the Capitanía General of Melilla.
30 Mar 1912
Recognized as Spanish possession by Morocco
in the Treaty of Fez.
27 Nov
1912
Melilla subordinated as a commandancia
of Spanish Morocco (Morocco).
9 Dec 1931
According to the Spanish
Constitution of the Second Spanish
Republic, Melilla autonomy is
recognized.
10 Jul 1934 - 22 Feb 1968 Under the
Governor-general of the Plazas of Sovereignty (Plazas
de
Soberanía) in North Africa (held by Spanish
High Commissioner
for Morocco until 10 Aug 1956)(see under Ceuta).
17 Jul 1936
Melilla taken over by the
Nationalists.
7 Apr
1956
Melilla a presidio of Spain
(part of Málaga province).
Jun
1962
Moroccan partial blockade of Melilla (and Ceuta).
Mar
1983
Moroccan blockade of Melilla
(and Ceuta).
15 Mar
1995
Autonomous City of Melilla (Ciudad Autónoma de
Melilla)(composed of
the city
of Melilla, separated from Málaga province)(by
law of
13 Mar 1995).
Captains-general of Ceuta
10 Oct 1496 - 10 Jul 1507 Juan Alonso Pérez de
Guzmán, (b.
1464 - d. 1507)
duque de Medina Sidonia
10 Jul 1507 - 20 Jan 1513 Enrique Pérez de Guzmán
y Fernández (b. 1494 - d. 1513)
de Velasco, duque de Medina
Sidonia
20 Jan 1513 - 26 Nov 1549 Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán
y de Guzmán
-Zúñiga, duque de Medina Sidonia (b. 1500 - d.
1549)
26 Nov 1549 - 7 Jun 1557 Juan Alonso Pérez
de Guzmán y de (b. 1502 - d. 1558)
Guzmán-Zúñiga, duque de Medina
Sidonia
Alcaide and Captains (for the Dukes of
Medina Sidonia to 7 Jun 1556)
17 Sep 1496 - 1497?
Pedro de Estopiñán y
Virués (b.
c.1470 - d. 1505)
1497 - 1500?
Goméz Suárez
1500 - 1510
Gonzalo Mariño de Ribera
(b. c.1465 - d. 15..)
(or Ribelles)(1st time)
1510 - 1513
Bernavé Pinelo
1513 - 1518
Fernando de Abreu
1518 - 1522
Gonzalo Mariño de Ribera
(s.a.)
(2nd
time)
1522 - 1535
Francisco de Medina Monsivay
1535 - 1542
Cristóbal Dabrés (de Abreu)
1543 - 1546
Hernando de Jerez
1546 - 1554
Juan de Perea
1554 - 1559
Alonso de Urrea
1556 - 1559
Alonso de Urrea
1559 - 1568
Pedro Venegas de Córdoba
(d. 1603)
1568 -
1571
Francisco Sánchez de Córdoba
4 Dec 1571 -
1595
Antonio de Tejada
1595 -
1596
Jerónimo de los Barrios
1596 - 1603
Martín Dávalos y Padilla
1603 -
1611
Pedro de Herrida
1612 -
1617
Domingo de Dieguez
1617 -
1618
Gaspar de Mondragón
1618 -
1619
Domingo de Ochoa
1619 -
1620
Diego de Leyva
1620 -
1622
Francisco Rodríguez de Sanabria
1622 -
1624
Francisco Ruíz
1624 -
1625
Francisco de Córdoba y Rojas,
(d. 1648)
conde de
Casa Palma (interim)
1625 - 14 Mar
1632
Luis de Sotomayor
(d. 1632)
1632 -
1633
Pedro Moreo (1st time)(interim)
1633 - 12 Mar
1635
Tomás Mejias de Escobedo
12 Mar 1635 -
1637
Pedro Moreo (2nd time)(interim)
Governors
4 Nov 1637 - 4 Nov 1648 Gabriel de
Peñalosa y
Estrada (d. 1648)
1646 - 18 Jul
1646
Carlos Ramírez de Arellano (acting)
18 Jul 1646 - Nov 1646 Gil
Fernández de Navarrete (acting)
1649 - 6 May 1649
Luis de
Sotomayor
(d. 1649)
1649
Andrés del Carte y
Murisábal
(interim)
1649
Lázaro Moreo
1649 - 5 Dec
1650
Jordán Pérez
(d. 1650)
19 Feb 1651 - 1651
Juan de Peñalosa (interim)
May 1651 - 29 Jul 1655 Pedro
Palacio y Guevara
8 Nov 1655 - 29 Aug 1656 Diego de
Arce (1st time)(interim) (d. 1674)
1 Sep 1656 - 1669
Luis de
Velázquez y
Angulo
(b. 1605 - d. 16..)
7 Nov 1667 - 1669
Juan de Peñalosa y Estrada (acting)
1669 -
1672
Francisco Osorio de
Astorga
(d. 1688)
Aug 1672 - 3 Oct
1674 Diego de Arce (2nd
time) (s.a.)
3 Oct 1674 - 1 Feb 1675 Pedro
Moreo (interim)
Oct 1675 -
1680
José Frías
1680 -
1683
Diego Toscano y Brito
1684 - 12 Mar
1686
Diego Pacheco y Arce
Apr 1687 - 5 Oct 1687
Francisco López Moreno
(d. 1687)
6 Oct 1687 -
1688
Antonio Domínguez de Durán (interim)
1688 -
1691
Bernabé Ramos y Miranda
24 Mar 1692 - 1 Feb 1697 Antonio
de Zúñiga y de la Cerda
1 Feb 1697 - 14 Jul 1703 Domingo de
Canal y Soldevila
1704 -
1707
Blas de Trincheria (interim)
(b. 1663 - d. 1776)
1707 -
1711
Diego de Flores
13 Jul 1711 - 14 Feb 1714 Juan Jerónimo
Ungo de Velasco
19 Sep 1714 - 1 Apr 1715 Patricio
Gómez de la Hoz
(d. 1715)
1 Apr 1715 - 25 Mar 1716 Pedro Sansón, conde
de Desallois
(interim)
25 Mar 1716 - 2 Feb 1719 Pedro
Borrás
(d. 1728?)
2 Feb 1719 - 1 Aug 1719
Francisco Ibáñez Rubalcava y
(d. 1719)
Velasco
1 Aug 1719 - 8 Oct 1730
Alonso de Guevara y Vasconcelos (b. 1669 -
d. 1730)
8 Oct 1730 - 11 Mar 1732 Juan
Andrés del Thoso
(d. 1732)
11 Mar 1732 - 22 Aug 1732 Francisco de
Alba (1st time) (d. 1758)
(interim)
22 Aug 1732 - 22 Apr 1757 Antonio Villalba y
Ángulo (d. 1757)
22 Apr 1757 - 3 Jul 1758 Francisco
de Alba (2nd time)
(s.a.)
3 Jul 1758 - 19 Sep 1758 Francisco
del Thoso (interim)
19 Sep 1758 - 22 May 1767 Narciso Vázquez y
Nicuesa
22 May 1767 - 27 Jan 1772 Miguel
Fernández de Saavedra (d.
1772)
15 Apr 1772 - 26 Jan 1777 José Carrión de
Andrade
(b. 1725 - d. 1793)
26 Jan 1777 - 11 Apr 1777 Nicolás Quijano
(interim)
6 Nov 1777 - 26 May 1779 Bernardo de
Tortosa
(b. 1722 - d. 1801)
17 Aug 1780 - 24 Sep 1782 Antonio Manso
24 Sep 1782 - 27 Jun 1786 José Granados
28 Oct 1786 - 12 May 1788 José Naranjo
22 Jul 1788 - 27 Jul 1798 José Rivera
27 Jul 1798 - 10 Aug 1800 Fernando Moyano
(interim)
10 Aug 1800 - 10 Aug 1814 Ramón
Conti
1810 - 30 May
1814
.... (British commanders)
10 Aug 1814 - 15 Oct 1814 Manuel Ibarra
(interim)
15 Oct 1814 - 17 Feb 1821 Jacinto Díaz
Capilla
(d. 1821)
17 Feb 1821 - 16 Jul 1823 Antonio Mateos
Malpartida
(interim)
16 Jul 1823 - 26 Mar 1824 Juan José
Pérez del Hacho y Oliván
(interim)
Sep 1824 - 25 Nov 1826 Luis
Cappa y Rioseco (1st time)
25 Nov 1826 - 1 May 1829 Manuel
García (interim)
1 May 1829 - 30 Apr 1830 Juan
Serrano y Reina (interim)
8 Jun 1830 - 12 May 1835 Luis Cappa
y Rioseco (2nd time)
12 May 1835 - 26 Jul 1835 Lázaro Garcia
del Real (interim)
26 Jul 1835 - 20 Dec 1838 Rafael Delgado
y Moreno
21 Dec 1838 - 25 Mar 1839 Gregorio
Álvarez y Pérez
(d. 1857)
(president of Royal Government Junta,
in Carlist rebellion)
28 Mar 1839 - 23 Jun 1839 Ramón Robere
(interim)
23 Jun 1839 - 20 Jul 1847 Demetrio María de Benito
y
Hernández
20 Jul 1847 - 7 Oct 1847 Justo
Martín de Villota (interim) (b. 1789 - d. 1854)
7 Oct 1847 - 11 Dec 1847 Antonio López de
Mendoza
(interim)
11 Dec 1847 - 9 Feb 1848 Manuel
Arcaya
9 Feb 1848 - 17 Sep 1850 Ignacio
Chacón del Valle (b.
1788 - d. 1855)
17 Sep 1850 - 15 Nov 1854 José Eustaquio
de Castro y Méndez
15 Nov 1854 - 12 Nov 1856 Manuel Buceta
del Villar (b. 1808 -
d. 1882)
(1st time)
12 Nov 1856 - 4 Dec 1856 José
Muñoz (interim)
4 Dec 1856 - 22 Jul 1858 José Morcillo y
Ezquerra
22 Jul 1858 - 28 Oct 1858 Francisco
Ceballos (interim)
28 Oct 1858 - 19 Feb 1860 Manuel Buceta del
Villar
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
19 Feb 1860 - 9 Nov 1861 Luis Lemni
Demandre de la Breche
9 Nov 1861 - 8 Dec 1862
Felipe Ginovés del Espinar y de (d.
1872)
la Parra
8 Dec 1862 - 5 Sep 1863
Manuel Álvarez Maldonado
5 Sep 1863 - 9 May 1864
Thomás O'Ryan y Vázquez
(b. 1821 - d. 1902)
9 May 1864 - 16 Nov 1866 Bartolomé
de Benavides y Campuzano (b. 1813 - d. 1888)
16 Nov 1866 - 8 Dec 1868 José
Salcedo y González
8 Dec 1868 - 6 May 1871 Pedro
Beaumont y Peralta
6 May 1871 - 23 Dec 1873 Bernardo
Alemañy y Perote
23 Dec 1873 - 21 Sep 1879 Andrés Cuadra y
Bourman
21 Sep 1879 - 2 Apr 1880 Manuel
Macías y Casado (1st time) (b. 1844 - d. 1937)
2 Apr 1880 - 2 Oct 1880 Ángel
Navascués
2 Oct 1880 - 21 Apr 1881 Evaristo
García y Reina
21 Apr 1881 - 2 Sep 1886 Manuel
Macías y Casado (2nd time) (s.a.)
2 Sep 1886 - 13 May 1887 Teodoro
Camino y Alcobendas (b. 1822
- d. 1889)
13 May 1887 - 3 Sep 1888 Mariano de
la Iglesia y Guillén
3 Sep 1888 - 29 Sep 1888 Juan
Villalonga y Soler
(d. 1888)
9 Nov 1888 - 16 Dec 1889 Rafael
Assin y Bazán
(b. 1825 - d. 1889)
16 Dec 1889 - 23 Sep 1891 José Mirelis y
González (b.
1830 - d. 1892)
23 Sep 1891 - 30 Sep 1891 Santos Asbert
Laguna (interim)
30 Sep 1891 - 28 Oct 1893 Juan García
y Margallo (b.
1839 - d. 1893)
29 Oct 1893 - 19 Dec 1893
Manuel Macías y Casado (3rd time) (s.a.)
19 Dec 1893 - 16 Feb 1894 Juan Arolas y
Esplugues (b.
1840 - d. 1899)
16 Feb 1894 - 23 Mar 1894 Juan Valverde
Carrillo (interim)
23 Mar 1894 - Apr 1895 Rafael
Cerero y Sáenz (interim) (b. 1831 - d.
1906)
25 Apr 1895 - 11 Jun 1898 José Alcántara
Pérez
(b. 1834 - d. 1898)
11 Jun 1898 - 22 Jul 1898 Francisco
Salinero y Bellver
(b. 1834 - d. 1912)
(1st
time)
22 Jul 1898 - 9 Aug 1899 Fernando Alameda y
Liancourt (b. 1833 - d. 1899)
9 Aug 1899 - 29 Sep 1899 Francisco
Salinero y Bellver (s.a.)
(2nd
time)(interim)
29 Sep 1899 - 7 Aug 1904 Venancio Hernández
y Fernández (b. 1839 - d. 1904)
7 Aug 1904 - 6 Sep 1904
Vicente Muñíz Cuadrado (1st time)
(interim)
6 Sep 1904 - 16 Dec 1904 Manuel Serrano y
Ruíz
(d. 1904)
26 Jan 1905 - 3 Oct 1905 Enrique
Segura y Campoy
(b. 1845 - d. 1905)
3 Oct 1905 - 21 Nov 1905 Vicente
Muñíz Cuadrado (2nd time)
(interim)
21 Nov 1905 - 3 Sep 1910 José Marina
Vega
(b. 1850 - d. 1926) Mil
3 Sep 1910 - 1 Oct 1910 Salvador de
Arizón y Sánchez-Fano (b. 1853 - d. 1921)
Mil
(acting)
1 Oct 1910 - 27 Nov 1912 José García Aldave
(b. 1845 - d. 1914) Mil
Mayors (Alcaldes -
Presidentes de la Junta de Arbitrios)
20 May 1912 - 31 Dec 1912 Máximo
Ramos y Orcajo
1 Jan 1913 - 11 Jan 1913 Luis Aizpuru y Mondéjar
(b. 1857 - d.
1939) Mil
11 Jan 1913 - 28 Sep 1913 José
Villalba Riquelme (1st time) (b. 1856 - d. 1944)
28 Sep 1913 - 28 Oct 1913 Fernando Moltó
y
Ocampo
(b. 1856 - d. 1924) Mil
28 Oct 1913 - 12 Dec 1913 José
Villalba Riquelme (2nd time) (s.a.)
12 Dec 1913 - 19 Dec 1913 Juan Montero
Montero
19 Dec 1913 - 19 Jul 1917 José
Villalba Riquelme (3rd time) (s.a.)
19 Jul 1917 - 20 May 1916 Domingo Arráiz
de
la Conderena (b. 1859 - d. 1927)
20 May 1916 - 29 May 1916 José
Sousa del Real
29 May 1916 - 16 Dec 1916 Federico
Monteverde Cedano (b.
1858 - d. af.1925)
(1st
time)
16 Dec 1916 - 18 Dec 1916 Ramón
Franch
Tresserra
(b. 1842 - d. 1932)
18 Dec 1916 - 9 Jan 1917 Luis Jiménez
Pajarero y Velasco (b. 1857 - d. 1922)
9 Jan 1917 - 18 Dec 1920 Federico Monteverde
Cedano (s.a.)
(2nd
time)
28 Dec 1920 - 9 Aug 1921 Felipe Navarro
Ceballos-Escalera, (b. 1862 - d. 1936)
barón
de Casa Davalillos
19 Aug 1921 - 12 Jun 1922 Miguel
Fresneda Mengíbar
12 Jun 1922 - Aug 1922 Julio de
Ardanaz y Crespo (b.
1860 - d.
1939)
Aug 1922 - 10 Sep 1922
Jerónimo Palou
10 Sep 1922 - Sep 1925
José García Aldave (1st time)
(s.a.)
Mil
Sep 1925 - Oct 1925
Soriano
(acting)
Oct 1925 - 14 Jan 1927
José García Aldave (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Mil
14 Jan 1927 - 14 Mar 1927 Miguel González
Carrasco
Presidents of the Municipal Junta (Presidentes de
la Junta Municipal)
14 Mar 1927 - 16 Mar 1928 Francisco Calvo
Lucía
16 Mar 1928 - 14 Apr 1931 Cándido
Lobera Girela
(b. 1871 - d. 1932)
Mayors (Alcaldes)
14 Apr 1931 - 3 Jul 1931 Juan Mendizábal
Echevarría
3 Jul 1931 - 14 Oct 1931 Antonio Díez Martín
(1st time) (b. 1887 - d.
1936) PSOE
16 Oct 1931 - 27 Dec 1933 Miguel Bernardi Tevar
27 Dec 1933 - 21 Feb 1936 Antonio García
Vallejo
21 Feb 1936 - 17 Jul 1936 Antonio Díez Martín (2nd
time) (s.a.)
PSOE
18 Jul 1936 - 26 Oct 1937 José Marfil
García (1st time)
27 Oct 1937 - 16 Dec 1939 Octavio Martínez
Cayuela (d. 1958)
16 Dec 1939 - 27 Apr 1940 José Marfil García (2nd
time)
27 Apr 1940 - 1 Oct 1940 José
Lamas Calvelo
1 Oct 1940 - 12 Dec 1950 Rafael Álvarez
Claro
22 Dec 1950 - 8 Jan 1953 Eduardo García
Sánchez
23 Mar 1953 - 26 May 1956 Gabriel de Beníto
Angulo (b. 1906
- d. 1971)
6 Jun 1956 - 18 Nov 1957 Manuel Requena
Cañones (b.
19.. - d. 2002)
18 Nov 1957 - 17 Jan 1958 Miguel Gómez Morales
(acting)
17 Jan 1958 - 6 Dec 1959 Juan Villalón
Dombriz
(b. 1893 - d. 1983)
8 Jan 1960 - 7 Dec 1962 Luís
Carvajal Arrieta
(b. 1897 - d. 1980) Mil
17 Feb 1963 - 28 Sep 1963 José
Cabanillas Rojas
2 Oct 1963 - 13 Aug 1964 Antonio Romaguera
Barceló (interim)(b. 1889 - d. 19..)
14 Aug 1964 - 29 Nov 1971 Francisco Mir Berlanga
(b. 1913 - d.
2002)
29 Nov 1971 - 3 Mar 1972 Roberto Moreno Valdés
(interim)
3 Mar 1972 - 30 Jul 1975 Eduardo León Solá
(b. 1923 - d. 2002)
31 Jul 1975 - 18 Apr 1979 Luis Cobreros
Acero
(b. 1932 - d. 2004) AP
(acting
to 19 Aug 1975)
19 Apr 1979 - 22 May 1983 Rafael Ginel Cañamaque
(b. 1933 - d.
1998) UCD
23 May 1981 - 14 Jun 1991 Gonzalo Hernández
Martínez (b. 1947)
PSOE
15 Jun 1991 - 19 Jun 1995 Ignacio Velázquez
Rivera
(b.
1953)
PP
Mayor-Presidents
19 Jun 1995 - 3 Mar 1998 Ignacio
Velázquez
Rivera
(s.a.)
PP
3 Mar 1998 - 5 Jul 1999
Enrique Palacios
Hernández
(b.
1951)
Ind;1999 PIM
5 Jul 1999 - 19 Jul 2000 Mustafa
Hamed Moh-Mohamed Aberchán (b.
1959)
CPM
19 Jul 2000 - 15 Jun 2019
Juan José Imbroda Ortiz (1st time) (b.
1944)
UPM-PP
15 Jun 2019 - 11 Jul 2023
Eduardo de Castro
González
(b.
1957)
Cs;2021 Ind
11 Jul 2023
-
Juan José Imbroda Ortiz (2nd time)
(s.a.)
PP
Territorial Dispute: Melilla,
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, Peñón de
Alhucemas, Isla de Alborán, and
Islas Chafarinas are claimed by Morocco.
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
23 Jul 1508 - 20 Dec 1552
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera island occupied by Spain.
20 Dec 1522 - 8 Sep
1564 Moroccan Berber rule restored.
Oct 1525
Failed attempt to
retake the island by Luis Hurtado de Mendoza
y
Pacheco, marqués de Mondéjar captain-general of Granada.
1554 -
1564
Ruler of Morocco gives the island to the Ottomans, who
use it
as a
base for corsairs.
8 Sep 1564
Spanish rule restored by García
Álvarez de Toledo Osorio,
marqués
de Villafranca del Bierzo, viceroy of Catalonia.
Aug 1930
An earthquake joins
the island to the Moroccan coast as a
peninsula.
Alcaídes
23 Jul 1508 - 1508
Pedro Navarro, conde de Oliveto (b. 1460 -
d. 1528)
1508 - 20 Dec 1522
Juan de Villalobos
(d. 1522)
20 Dec 1522 - 8 Sep 1564 Moroccan occupation
8 Sep 1564 - 30 Jun 1565 Diego
Pérez de Arnalte
30 Jun 1565 - 6 May 1578 Juan de Molina
6 May 1578 - 6 Jan 1580 Diego de
Vera (1st time)
6 Jan 1580 - 9 Jan 1584 Juan de
Cepeda del Quintanar
(1st
time)
9 Jan 1584 - 15 Dec 1586
Diego de Vera (2nd time)
15 Dec 1586 - 5 Oct 1589 Juan de
Cepeda del Quintanar
(2nd
time)
5 Oct 1589 - 17 Jun 1592 Lázaro Moreno
de León
17 Jun 1592 - 30 Sep 1596 Melchor de Robles
2 Mar 1597 - 9 Nov 1597
Cristobál Vázquez de Avila
20 Feb 1598 - 18 Sep 1605 Gómez de Parada
12 Nov 1600 - 2 Jun 1602 Pedro de
Vargas (acting)
27 Nov 1605 - 8 May 1606
Pedro Rodríguez de Santisteban
1 Dec 1602 - 21 Apr 1613 Diego de
Nodera
6 Oct 1608 - 27 Apr 1609 Sebastián
Granero (acting)
27 Apr 1609 - 22 Sep 1613 ....
22 Sep 1613 - 26 Nov 1614 Martín de la Cerda
8 Feb 1615 - 30 Jul 1617 Alonso de la
Mesa Ludeña (acting)
1 Oct 1617 - 18 May 1618 Miguel García
30 Jun 1619 - 6 Mar 1622 Diego de
Escobedo
17 Sep 1622 - 18 Mar 1630 Juan de Herrera
Tordesillas
May 1630 - 25 Jul 1634
Luis Sánchez de Avila
20 May 1635 - 9 Nov 1636 Luis de
Sotomayor
18 Oct 1637 - 28 Oct 1640 Cristobál de Unzueta y
Labrit
9 May 1641 - 2 Jan 1643 Juan
Pérez Vidaur
13 Dec 1643 - 10 Jul 1646 Gil Fernández de
Navarrete y
Sotomayor
30 Jul 1646 - 6 Mar 1651 Pedro Palacio
Guevara
4 Jun 1651 - 25 Jan 1653 Diego
Fernández de Córdoba
25 Jan 1653 - 8 Oct 1656 Luis
Velázquez y Angulo
25 Jan 1653 - 26 Apr 1656 Juan Negrete
Sarmiento (acting)
1 Dec 1656 - 7 May 1662
Francisco Solís
7 May 1662 - 2 Nov 1662 Jerónimo
de Casares
+ Jerónimo
Guajardo de Ceballos
(acting)
2 Nov 1662 - 20 Jul 1672 Diego de Arce
20 Nov 1669 - 20 Apr 1671 Pedro Moreno (acting)
26 Sep 1672 - 14 Feb 1680 Juan de
Peñalosa y Estrada
14 Feb 1680 - 26 May 1685 Rodrigo Correa
Castelblanco
29 Aug 1685 - 2 Apr 1687 Francisco
López Moreno
29 Aug 1685 - 2 Apr 1687 Juan de
Alarcón (acting)
29 Dec 1688 - 9 Jan 1691
Onofre Antonio de Salas
9 Jan 1691 - 19 May 1696 Jerónimo
Torrijos Zapata
10 Feb 1693 - 22 Jul 1694 Alonso de
Lara (acting)
19 May 1696 - 11 Aug 1700 Francisco
González del Cueto
24 Aug 1700 - 11 Aug 1703 Antonio López
Gallardo
1 Dec 1703 - 22 Mar 1707 Pedro de
Azcuitia
26 Jan 1708 - 10 Aug 1709 Antonio Félix de
Tapia
31 Jan 1710 - 25 Sep 1715 Francisco Félix Moreno
10 Nov 1712 - 20 Sep 1719 Francisco Antonio
Negrete
(acting)
1 Feb 1720 - 5 Aug 1729
Tomás del Castillo-Viñas
y
Sagredo
22 Jun 1724 - 31 Jan 1728 Gonzálo López Páez
(acting)
5 Aug 1729 - 19 Jul 1730
Baltasar González (acting)
20 Jul 1730 - 4 Feb 1755
Julián Fernández Bayña y Cortés
4 Feb 1755 - 18 Jul 1757 Simón Gaspar
Guerra (acting)
18 Jul 1757 - 26 Jul 1766 Francisco
Herrera y Aramburu
1 Aug 1766 - 9 Jan 1776
Florencio Moreno Sabala
9 Jan 1776 - 1 Feb 1776 Miguel
Moreno (acting)
1 Feb 1776 - 16 Mar 1778
Claudio Laville
19 Dec 1778 - 29 Feb 1788 Domingo Martínez de
Molina
21 Apr 1784 - 18 Feb 1785 Miguel
Miranda (acting)
21 Jan 1787 - 10 Apr 1788 Gabriel
Pérez Britos (acting)
10 Apr 1788 - 21 Dec 1799 Diego Fernández
Laguna
8 Jun 1795 - 30 May 1796 Miguel de
Lara (acting)
8 Apr 1800 - 27 Apr 1806
Antonio Lara
27 Apr 1806 - 8 Aug 1806 José
Cuellar (acting)
8 Aug 1806 - 25 Jan 1813
Gregorio Donaire Hurtado de
Mendoza
13 Jul 1813 - 24 Mar 1821 Angel Cebollino
26 Jul 1821 - 5 Jun 1830 José O'Mahony
5 Jun 1830 - 7 Jul 1830 Juan de
Orús (acting)
7 Jul 1830 - 3 Mar 1832
Bruno Portillo Velasco (acting)
3 Mar 1832 - 14 Jul 1833 Mariano
Medrano
14 Jul 1833 - 25 Jul 1833 Pedro de
Rodas (acting)
25 Jul 1833 - 26 Jul 1839 Ramón
Lladó
30 Jul 1839 - 10 Aug 1844 Andrés Sánchez
Madrid
10 Aug 1844 - Nov 1844 Onofre
García (acting)
Nov 1844 - 24 Nov 1844
Francisco Calbo (acting)
24 Nov 1844 - 29 Nov 1853 Manuel
Longuet Girona
29 Nov 1853 - 14 Nov 1854 Luis Cappa Béjar
14 Nov 1854 - 12 Feb 1855 Nicolás Montillo
Herrero
(acting)
12 Feb 1855 - 15 Apr 1856 José
Anguita Calbo
15 Apr 1856 - 10 Jun 1859 Luis Cappa Béjar
(2nd time)
28 Jun 1859 - 2 Sep 1865 Rafael Añino
Bonilla
14 Nov 1865 - 16 Feb 1867 Severo Pérez
Cardicid
16 Feb 1867 - 11 Nov 1867 Juan León Minaya
11 Nov 1867 - 18 Jan 1868 José Ansaldo
Cedrón
17 Feb 1868 - 6 Oct 1870 Luis Molina
Terán
5 Dec 1870 - 26 Aug 1872 Ecequiel Jiménez
San Juan
21 Sep 1872 - 20 Apr 1875 Blas Urra Domeco
14 May 1875 - 23 Sep 1875 Francisco Galán
Vergara
23 Sep 1875 - 26 Apr 1876 Enrique Castro
Ledesma (acting)
26 Apr 1876 - 7 Jan 1879 José
Sarro Hurtado
27 Jan 1879 - 30 Nov 1879 Marcos Galán
Velasco
30 Nov 1879 - 30 Jan 1880 Antonio Jaime
Ramírez (acting)
30 Jan 1880 - 11 Apr 1882 Antonio
Rodríguez Linares
11 Jul 1882 - 25 Sep 1885 José Sarro Hurtado
(2nd time)
25 Sep 1885 - 2 Nov 1885 Gregorio
Solana Velasco
(acting)
2 Nov 1885 - 22 Nov 1886
Sixto Soler Romero
22 Nov 1886 - 12 Dec 1886 Antonio González
Torres (acting)
12 Dec 1886 - 2 Feb 1889 José Ruiz
Cebollino
4 Feb 1889 - 11 Nov 1889 Gabriel
Carrero Gago
25 Nov 1889 - 30 Jan 1891 Manuel Martínez
Pérez
3 Feb 1891 - 12 Jul 1892 José Belda
Martínez
13 Jul 1892 - 31 Oct 1895 Juan Villalón
Felipe
1 Nov 1895 - 4 Nov 1895 Gregorio
Infantes Luis (acting)
5 Nov 1895 - 10 Apr 1896 José Segovia
Fuentes
10 Apr 1896 - 27 Jan 1899 José Anglada
González
27 Jan 1899 - 31 Mar 1899 Pascual Piqueras
Simó (acting)
31 Mar 1899 - 11 Aug 1905 Mariano
Saldaña Bravo
11 Aug 1905 - 10 Sep 1905 Emilio Hernández
Pérez (1st time)
(acting)
10 Sep 1905 - 31 Mar 1906 Tomás
Merino Pereda
31 Mar 1906 - 12 Apr 1906 Emilio Miró
Requena (acting)
12 Apr 1906 - 20 Apr 1906 Emilio
Hernández Pérez (2nd time)
(acting)
20 Apr 1906 - 1913
Alfonso Alcayna Rodríguez
Murcia
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- 5 May 1979 - 15 Jun 1982
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- Adopted 15 Jun 1982
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24 Nov 1978
Regional Council of Murcia (Consejo
Regional de Murcia) created
to administer Murcia province (by royal decree law of 29
Sep 1978,
effective 10 Nov 1978).
9 Jul
1982
Region of Murcia (Región
de Murcia)(composed of the province of
Murcia),
established as an autonomous community (by organic law
of 9 Jun 1982).
Presidents of the Regional Council of
Murcia
24 Nov 1978
- 5 May 1979 Antonio Pérez
Crespo
(b. 1929 - d. 2012) UCD
5 May 1979
- 9 Jul 1982 Andrés Hernández
Ros
(b. 1948 - d. 2016) PSRM-PSOE
Presidents of the Region
of Murcia
9 Jul 1982 - 29 Mar 1984 Andrés
Hernández
Ros
(s.a.)
PSRM-PSOE
29 Mar 1984 -
2 May 1993 Carlos Collado
Mena
(b.
1938)
PSRM-PSOE
2 May 1993
- 3 Jul 1995 María Antonia Martínez García
(f) (b.
1953)
PSRM-PSOE
3 Jul 1995
- 10 Apr 2014 Ramón Luis
Valcárcel Siso
(b.
1954)
PP
10 Apr 2014 - 3 Jul 2015
Alberto Garre
López
(b. 1952) PP
3 Jul 2015 - 4 Apr 2017 Pedro
Antonio Sánchez López
(b.
1976)
PP
4 Apr 2017 - 3 May 2017 María Dolores
Pagán Arce (f) (b.
1967) PP
(acting)
3 May 2017
-
Fernando López Miras
(b. 1983)
PP
Navarre (Navarra)
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- 8 Jul 1931 - 18 Mar
1937
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- 18 Mar 1937 - 8 Nov 1937
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- 8 Nov 1937 - 20 Nov 1981
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- Adopted 10 Aug 1982
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Capital:
Pamplona
(Iruña)
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Population:
661,000
(2020) |
Hear Local Anthem
"Himno de las Cortes/
Gorteen Ereserkia"
(Anthem of the Courts)
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Text of Anthem
Adopted 28 May 1986
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23 Apr
1979
Foral Deputation of Navarre (Diputación
Foral de Navarra) created
to administer the province of Navarre (by royal decree
of 26 Jan
1979,
effective 19 Apr 1979).
16 Aug
1982
Foral Community of Navarre (Comunidad Foral de
Navarra = Nafarroako
Foru Komunitatea)(composed of the province of
Navarra), an
autonomous community (by organic law of 10 Aug
1982).
Presidents of the
Foral Deputation
of Navarra
23 Apr 1979 - 28 Sep 1980 Jaime Ignacio
del Burgo Tajadura (b.
1942)
UCD
29 Sep 1980 - 16 Aug 1982
Juan Manuel Arza
Muñuzuri
(b. 1932 - d. 2019) UCD
Presidents of the Government of
Navarre
16 Aug 1982 - 14
Jan 1984 Juan Manuel Arza
Muñuzuri
(s.a.)
UCD
14 Jan 1984 - 18 Apr 1984 Jaime Ignacio del
Burgo Tajadura
(s.a.)
UPN-PP
18 Apr 1984 - 20 Sep 1991 Gabriel Urralburu
Tainta
(b.
1950)
PSN-PSOE
20 Sep 1991 - 24 Jul 1995 Juan Cruz Alli
Aranguren
(b.
1942)
UPN
(1st time)
24 Jul 1995 - 19 Jun 1996 Javier Otano
Cid
(b.
1946)
PSN-PSOE
19 Jun 1996 - 17 Sep 1996 Juan Cruz Alli
Aranguren
(s.a.)
CDN
(2nd time)
17 Sep 1996 - 27 Jun 2011 Miguel Sanz
Sesma
(b.
1952)
UPN-PP
27 Jun 2011 - 22 Jul 2015 Yolanda Barcina
Angulo (f) (b. 1960)
UPN
22 Jul 2015 - 6 Aug 2019
Miren Uxue Barkos Berruezo
(f) (b.
1964)
GB
6 Aug 2019 -
María Victoria
Chivite
(b. 1978)
PSN-PSOE
Navascués (f)
País
Vasco/Euskadi (Basque Country)
-
- 7 Oct 1936 - 19 Jun
1937;
- Re-adopted 11 Jan 1980
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Map of Basque Country
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Hear
Region Anthem
"Eusko Abendaren Ereserkia"
(Himno del País Vasco)
(Anthem of the Basque
Race)
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Text
of Anthem
1936-1937,
Re-adopted 14 Apr 1983
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Statute
of Autonomy
(11 Jan 1980)
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Capital:
Vitoria-Gasteiz
(de facto from 20 May 1980)
(Bilbao 7 Oct 1936-19 Jun 1937)
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Currency: Euro (EUR)
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Local Holiday 2010-2014:
25 Oct (1979)
Day of the Basque Country
(Euskadiko Eguna/
Día del País Vasco)
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1936-1937: 28 Mar (1882)
(on Easter Sunday)
Fatherland Day
(Aberri Eguna)
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Population: 2,170,868
(2018)
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1878 - 1936
Political Conferences
of the Basque Provinces, consisting of
representatives of the three Basque provinces and
chaired by
the President of Diputación Provincial
of the province hosting
the conference, with largely advisory
powers deal with general
Basque matters.
19 Jul 1936
Vitoria, capital of Álava province,
occupied by Nationalist force
(also 13
Sep 1936 San Sebastián capital of Guipúzcoa province).
7 Oct
1936
Basque
Country (País Vasco = Euskadi) organized as an
autonomous
region (composed of the provinces of Álava,
Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya
[Biscay]) organized (by law signed 6 Oct 1936).
19 Jun
1937
Bilbao occupied by the Nationalists, the Basque
government flees.
23 Jun
1937
Nationalists
occupy Balmaseda, gaining control of
the entire
Basque
Country.
17 Feb 1978
General
Council of the Basque Country (Consejo General del
País
Vasco/Eusko
Kontseilu Nagusia) formed to
administer the provinces
or territories of Álava (Araba), Guipúzcoa (Gipuzkoa),
Navarre and
Vizcaya
(Bizkaia)(by law of 4 Jan 1978, effective 6 Jan
1978)
(approval of incorporation: Guipúzcoa
[Gipuzkoa] by resolution of
Diputación
Foral of 22 Apr 1979; Álava [Araba]
by resolution of
the Juntas Generales of 22 May 1979; Vizcaya [Bizkaia]
by
resolution of the Juntas Generales of 22 May
1979; The Parlamento
of
Navarre declined the incorporation).
11 Jan 1980
Basque Country (Euskadi/País Vasco = Euskadi/Euskal
Herria) an
autonomous community (composed of the provinces
of Álava, Gipuzkoa
and
Biscay)(by law of 18 Dec 1979). The Statute
provided for
accession of Navarre, if accepted (not implemented).
25 Oct 2008
Self-determination
referendum scheduled, however on 11 Sep 2008,
it is
canceled by the Constitutional Court of Spain.
29 May
2014
Basque Parliament adopts a declaration of
sovereignty (it is later
suspended by the Constitutional Court of
Spain).
President of the
Provisional Government
of Basque Country
(Presidente del Gobierno Provisional de
Euskadi = Euskadiko Bitarteko Jaurlaritzaren
Lehendakari)
7 Oct 1936 - 19 Jun 1937 José Antonio
Aguirre y Lecube (b. 1904 - d. 1960)
EAJ-PNV
(=
Agirre ta Lekube'tar Joseba Andoni)
19 Jun 1937 - 17 Feb 1978
Post abolished
Presidents of the General Council of the Basque Country
17 Feb 1978 - 9 Jun 1979 Ramón
Rubial
Cavia
(b. 1906 - d. 1999) PSE-EE
9 Jun 1979 - 9 Apr 1980
Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza
(b.
1938)
EAJ-PNV
Presidents of the Basque Government
(Presidente del Gobierno Vasco = Eusko
Jaurlaritzako Lehendakari; from 27 Jul 1980, Lehendakari)
9 Apr 1980
- 26 Jan 1985 Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza
(s.a.)
EAJ-PNV
26 Jan 1985 - 2 Jan 1999
José Antonio Ardanza Garro
(b.
1941)
EAJ-PNV
2 Jan 1999 - 7 May 2009
Juan José Ibarretxe Markuartu
(b.
1957)
EAJ-PNV
7 May 2009 - 15 Dec 2012 Francisco
Javier "Patxi" López (b. 1959)
PSE-EE
Álvarez
15 Dec 2012
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Iñigo Urkullu Rentería
(b. 1961)
EAJ-PNV
Basque Government in Exile
(1937-1979)
Presidents of the Provisional Government of Basque
Country
19 Jun 1937 - 22 Mar 1960 José
Antonio Aguirre y Lecube
(s.a.)
EAJ-PNV
(in exile to 4 Feb 1939 in Barcelona; Feb 1939 - May
1940
in Paris; in Germany Dec 1940-23 May 1941; Göteborg,
Sweden 23 May - 31 Jul 1941; 27 Aug 1941-8 Oct 1941
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Oct-Nov 1941 in Uruguay;
6 Nov 1941-1946 in New York; from Jun 1946 in Paris)
22 Mar 1960 - 17 Dec 1979 Jesús María de
Leizaola Sánchez (b. 1896 - d. 1989)
EAJ-PNV
(in Paris, France exile to 15 Dec 1979)
Valencia
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- 10 Apr 1978 - 24 Apr 1979
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- 24 Apr 1979 - 10 Jul 1982
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- Adopted 10 Jul 1982
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22 Jul 1936
Popular Executive Committee
of Valencia formed by trade unions
and parties. On 5 Aug 1936 it
is recognized by the Republican
government as an autonomous regional body.
6 Nov 1936
Republican government moves
from Madrid to Valencia, the authority
of the
Committee is limited.
23 Dec 1936
Draft Statute of Autonomy of
Valencian Country is presented.
8 Jan 1937
The Committee dissolves
itself.
30 Mar 1939
Nationalist forces occupy
Valencia.
10 Apr 1978
Council of the Valencian Country (Consejo
del País Valenciano =
Consell del País Valencià) formed to
administer the municipalities
within the administrative limits of the provinces of
Alicante,
Castellón and Valencia (by royal decree of 17 Mar 1978,
effective
18 Mar
1978).
10 Jul
1982
Valencian Community (Comunidad Valenciana =
Comunitat Valenciana)
(composed of the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and
Valencia),
organized as an autonomous community (by organic
law of 1 Jul
1982).
Presidents of the Popular Executive Committee of
Valencia
(from 8 Aug 1936, also Civil governors of the
Valencia province)
22 Jul 1936 - 28 Sep 1936 Ernesto Arín
Prado
(b. 1875 - d. 1937) Non-party
28 Sep 1936 - 8 Jan 1937 Ricardo Zabalza
Elorga
(b. 1898 - d. 1940) PSOE
Presidents of the Council of the Valencian Country
(Presidente del Consell del País
Valenciano = President del Consell del País Valencià)
10 Apr 1978 - 22? Dec 1979 José Luis Albiñana
Olmos (b.
1943)
PSPV-PSOE
(= Josep Lluís Albiñana Olmos)
(formal inauguration 16 Apr 1978)
29? Dec 1979 - 26 Nov 1982 Enrique Monsonís
Domingo
(b. 1931 - d. 2011) UCD
(= Enric Monsonís Domingo)
(acting to 14 Sep 1981; formally discharged 29 Nov 1982)
Presidents of the Valencian Generalitat
(Presidente de la Generalidad
Valenciana = President de la Generalitat Valenciana)
26 Nov 1982 - 4 Jul 1995
Joan Lerma i
Blasco
(b.
1951)
PSPV-PSOE
(appointed by royal decree 23 Sep 1982,
formally installed 13 Dec 1982)
4 Jul 1995 - 24 Jul 2002
Eduardo Andrés Julio Zaplana
(b.
1956)
PPCV-PP
Hernández-Soro
24 Jul 2002 - 20 Jun 2003 José Luis
Olivas Martínez
(b.
1952)
PPCV-PP
20 Jun 2003 - 21 Jul 2011 Francisco
Enrique Camps Ortiz (b.
1962)
PPCV-PP
21 Jul 2011 - 28 Jul 2011 Paula Sánchez de
León (f) (acting) (b.
1965)
PPCV-PP
28 Jul 2011 - 28 Jun 2015 Alberto Fabra Part
(b. 1964)
PPCV-PP
28 Jun 2015 - 17 Jul 2023
Joaquín Francisco "Ximo" Puig i (b.
1959)
PSPV-PSOE
Ferrer
(= Joaquim
Francesc Puig i Ferrer)
17 Jul 2023
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Carlos Mazón Guixot
(b.
1974)
PPCV-PP
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