page_title: Eastern Region Army Group
hierarchical_section_title: Eastern Region Army Group
caption_attribution_description: English: Portbou (Catalonia, Spain).
context_page_description: The Eastern Region Army Group, Spanish: Grupo de Ejércitos de la Región Oriental, was a military formation of the Spanish Republican Army during the last phase of the Spanish Civil War. It was established in June 1938 as a response to the splitting in two of the territory under the sovereignty of the Spanish Republic after the Central Region Army Group, under the command of General Miaja, had been set up in the central-southern region of Spain.
  This army group of the Spanish Republican military lasted until the Fall of Catalonia on 9 February 1939.
context_section_description: The Eastern Region Army Group, Spanish: Grupo de Ejércitos de la Región Oriental (GERO), was a military formation of the Spanish Republican Army during the last phase of the Spanish Civil War. It was established in June 1938 as a response to the splitting in two of the territory under the sovereignty of the Spanish Republic after the Central Region Army Group (GERC), under the command of General Miaja, had been set up in the central-southern region of Spain.
  This army group of the Spanish Republican military lasted until the Fall of Catalonia on 9 February 1939.
caption: View of Portbou, one of the main border posts that were overwhelmed by defeated Spanish Republican troops and civilian refugees in early February 1939
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