The Spanish general and dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) played a major role in the Spanish Civil War and became head of state of Spain in 1939. Born at El Ferrol, a town in the northeastern Spanish province of Galicia, on December 4, 1892,...

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde (1892–1975) was a Spanish army officer, the youngest general in Europe, when he joined a group of officers in rebellion against the short-lived Second Republic in 1936. During the course of the ensuing Spanish Civil...

Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (4 December 1892 - November 20, 1975), commonly known as Francisco Franco (pronounced [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko]) or Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a dictator and later formally became head...

Spain's Crown Princess Letizia gave birth Sunday to a baby girl named Sofia, her second child with Prince Felipe.The newborn princess is third in line to the Spanish throne, after her father and elder sister, Princess Leonor, who is 1 1/2 years old.Letizia gave birth...

Antonio Banderas returned to the southern Spain of his youth and found things much improved for "Summer Rain," his second film as a director."Summer Rain" is a coming-of-age tale set in Malaga in the late 1970s as Spain emerged from the decades-long dictatorship of Gen....

Parliament on Thursday began debating a law that seeks reparations for victims of Spain's 1936-39 Civil war and the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco.The bill, proposed by the Socialist government in July, would also ban symbols and references to the Franco regime in public buildings...

Jesus de Polanco, a media giant credited with helping restore Spain's independent press after the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco in the 1970s, died Saturday at the age of 77, his flagship newspaper El Pais announced.De Polanco, the billionaire chairman of the powerful Spanish...

Compare the acquisition and retention of power by Franco with that of another leader of a single party state (B. Mussolini)