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Manuel Azaña

1880–1940 · 20th century

Manuel Azaña was a Spanish writer and politician, prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931 to 1933 and again in 1936, and its president from 1936 to 1939. His governments pursued army reform, land reform, Catalan autonomy and separation of Church and state. He resigned after the Republic's defeat in the Spanish Civil War and died in exile in France.

Manuel Azaña
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