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    Miguel Primo de Rivera

    Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930

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  1. Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE (8 January 1870 – 16 March 1930), was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration.

  2. Apr 3, 2024 · Miguel Primo de Rivera was a general and statesman who, as dictator of Spain from September 1923 to January 1930, founded an authoritarian and nationalistic regime that attempted to unify the nation around the motto “Country, Religion, Monarchy.”

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  3. Spanish general and dictator. Miguel Primo de Rivera was born in the Andalusian town of Jerez de la Frontera to an aristocratic family with landholding and military antecedents. In 1884 he followed his father and uncle into the military, enrolling in the General Military Academy.

  4. Miguel Primo de Rivera. Primo de Rivera was a political improviser who believed his mission was to save Spain from the old politicians and to hand over government (after an interval of personal rule) to “clean” patriots. He failed to complete the process because his rule became increasingly unpopular, especially among the intellectuals and ...

  5. According to his official notes, Primo de Rivera worked 'hard into the night' to protect Spain against these evils and to turn the UP into 'the European avant-garde' against the menace to 'Christian society'.

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  7. Miguel Primo de Rivera ruled Spain as a dictator from 1923 to 1930. Miguel Primo de Rivera was born in Cadiz on Jan. 8, 1870, of a middle-class family that later became landowners in the Andalusian town of Jerez.

  8. General Miguel Primo de Rivera 's dictatorship over Spain began with a coup on 13 September 1923 and ended with his resignation on 28 January 1930. It took place during the wider reign of King Alfonso XIII.

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