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Lluís Companys

1882–1940 · 20th century

Lluís Companys was a Catalan lawyer and leader of the Republican Left of Catalonia who became president of the Generalitat of Catalonia in 1934 after Francesc Macià. In October 1934 he proclaimed a Catalan State within a federal Spanish republic and was imprisoned. Restored in 1936, he led Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. Handed over by the Gestapo in 1940, he was executed by Franco's regime.

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Generalitat of Catalonia (1931-1939)

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lluís Companys. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lluis-companys
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