Spanish Civil War

In Brazilian's Agadir series, the Spanish Civil War was a conflict that resulted from Spanish defeats in 1915 & '16 during the Great War. Eventually, the nation would fall into chaos which resulted in a five-sided conflict for control over various portions of the Spanish mainland.
In July 1916, French and Spanish troops in Morocco began to crumble as the Germans and Moroccans in the State of Agadir began to attack them. This signalled the beginning of a socialist revolution in Spain, and members of the Spanish Socialist Union rose up. The first uprisings took place in Barcelona and Cartagena, followed by Murcia, A Coruña, San Sebastián, Gijón & Oviedo, Zaragoza & Huesca, and Bilbao. Several other uprisings in cities linked their forces with these cities. All of those uprisings were socialists, but in early August 1916, uprisings in Manresa, Vic, and Vielha were conducted by separatists, who aimed to create an independent Catalan state with support from Italy. Then came three more socialist uprisings, in Granada, Jaén, and Madrid. Both the month of August and the Kingdom of Spain came to an end, as the Spanish royal family fled to Seville. There, an Allied-aligned provisional government led by the military was set up, as the socialists and separatists declared the formations of their nations:
* Commonwealth of Catalonia, capital Manresa. (separatist)
* Commune of Catalonia, capital Barcelona.
* Commune of Aragon, capital Zaragoza.
* Commune of Valéncia, capital Valéncia.
* Commune of Murcia, capital Murcia.
* Commune of Galicia, capital Santiago de Compostela.
* Commune of Asturias, capital Oviedo.
* Basque Commune, capital Bilbao.
* Commune of Madrid, capital Madrid.
From September into October the socialists advanced, except in the bloodbath of Catalonia where the separatist movement even halted a French invasion from the north. Barcelona came under separatist control, so the socialist Catalan government relocated to Tortosa. When British forces attempted several landings in eastern Spain, they established several beachheads, but were unable to advance out of them. Soon, the socialists had taken more than half of Spain, as the gap between Madrid and the eastern Communes was closed, so the Commune of Madrid expanded into the Commune of Castile. In the northwest, Asturias also expanded into the Astur-Leonese Commune, moving the capital to Léon. The socialists continued their advances until winter. 
In February 1917, a Carlist uprising broke out in Euskadi and Navarra. As the Allied forces neutralised most of the Euskadi Carlists, a group of Euskadi separatists then rose up in their place, as another separatist movement broke out in Galicia, with their capital in Vigo. No other frontlines moved at this time.
And so here are the five sides:
# Spanish Provisional Government, Britain and France
# Socialists
# Catalan Separatists (+ Italian support)
# Carlists
# Basque and Galician Separatists.
Continuing into the spring of 1917, the stalemates between the socialists and the provisional government came to an end, as the Carlists decided to attempt a consolidation in Navarra, and the Basque separatists gained more ground.
{The following events will be shown in Episode 7 when it is released.}
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