Second Spanish Republic

Spanish Republic
*República Española*
Spanish Republic República Española
1931–1939
	Motto:
	Anthem:
	European borders of the Second Spanish Republic, as well as the Spanish protectorate in Morocco
Capital and largest city	Madrid
Official languages	Spanish
Government	Unitary semi-presidential republic
President
• 1931–1936	Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
• 1936 (interim)	Diego Martínez Barrio
• 1936–1939	Manuel Azaña
Prime Minister
• 1931 (first)	Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
• 1937–1939 (last)	Juan Negrín López
Legislature	Congress of Deputies
Historical era	Interwar period
•	14 April 1931
• Constitution adopted	9 December 1931
• Revolution of 1934	5-19 October 1934
• Spanish Civil War	17 July 1936
•	1 April 1939
Currency	Spanish peseta
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Kingdom of Spain
Spanish State
Spanish Republican; Government-in-Exile
	↑ In wartime, as Madrid was under siege since the Fall of 1936, Government moved to Valencia in 1936 and to Barcelona in 1937. ; ↑ Catalan was also official in Catalonia since 1932 as well as Basque in the Basque Country since 1936. ;

The Spanish Republic (Spanish: República Españolacode: es is deprecated ), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (Spanish: Segunda República Españolacode: es is deprecated ), was the government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931 and was dissolved on 1 April 1939.

Second Spanish Republic Media

This audio is the anthem of the Second Spanish Republic.
Allegory of the Spanish Republic, displaying republican symbolism such as the Phrygian cap and the motto Libertad, Igualdad, Fraternidad
Workers arrested by the Guardia Civil and Guardia de Asalto during the Asturian miners' strike of 1934
Column of Guardias Civiles during the 1934 Asturian Revolution, Brañosera
Image from the newspaper LA VOZ showing the leaders of the popular front elected in the Madrid constituency.
Calvo Sotelo dressed in the uniform of the Cuerpo de Abogados del Estado.
General José Sanjurjo Sacanell, Marquis of the Rif
Valencian Republican soldier
Victims of the Paracuellos massacre committed by the Republicans. The Republicans committed many acts of torture, murder, and war crimes throughout the war known as the Red Terror (Spain).
Twenty-six republicans executed by fascists who belonged to Franco's Nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, between August and September 1936. This mass grave was placed at the small town named Estépar, in Burgos, northern Spain. The excavation occurred in July–August 2014.