State · 1939 – 1975

Francoist Spain

A state of 1939 – 1975 — 36 years in Europe. It followed Second Spanish Republic and Nationalist zone. It was followed by Reign of Juan Carlos I of Spain and Spanish transition to democracy. The atlas records 6 things within it — wars and battles 4 · unrest and atrocity 1 · treaties 1. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 36 years; 1939 – 1975
Rulers: 2; the head of state
Most ground: 854,500 km²; in 1945
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbols: 5; on record, with years

Map: Francoist Spain in 1945, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Francoist Spain in 1945, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 854,500 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Second Spanish Republic · follows · 1931 – 1939
Nationalist zone · follows · 1936 – 1939

After it

Reign of Juan Carlos I of Spain · followed by
Spanish transition to democracy · followed by

Rulers

The line of head of state.

ending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Francisco Franco	1939 – —	no end recorded	ending not on record
Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel	1975 – 1975	under a year	ending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1939 – 1975. Only 36 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

854,300 km² in 1939, 785,200 km² in 1975; at its largest 854,500 km² in 1949. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of Spain (1945–1977) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Heralder
flag, 1936 – 1938Bandera del bando nacional 1936-1938 corregida · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Original Work (Flag of Spain 1931 1939.svg) : SanchoPanzaXXI Derivative work (Bandera del…
flag, 1938 – 1945Flag of Spain (1938–1945) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SanchoPanzaXXI
flag, 1945 – 1977Flag of Spain (1945–1977) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · SanchoPanzaXXI
flag, from 1977Flag of Spain (1977–1981) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Miguillen

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 19996 rows · 4 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Green March · war · 1975
Western Sahara War · war · 1975 – 1991
Operation Postmaster · battle · 1942
Zemla Intifada · unrest · 1970
Invasion of Val d'Aran · war · 1944
Pact of Madrid · treaty · 1953

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood36 years
stood longer than 29% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held854,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 82% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century3.0
had more wars on record per century than 99% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 5 causes the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1929 – 1985, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1945, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q13474305 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.