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7 unusual facts about Ebro


Chunta Aragonesista

CHA defends a federal state, greater financial resources for Aragon, and the protection of the environment and hydrological resources of the Ebro Valley.

Ebro, Minnesota

Ebro is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Falk Township, Clearwater County, Minnesota, United States.

Francisco Espoz y Mina

The national government in Cadiz gave him rank, and by September 7th 1812 he had been promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief in Upper Aragon, on the left bank of the Ebro.

Hans Kahle

In 1937, he became commander of the 17th Division of the People's Army, and in the Ebro offensive in 1938 he commanded the 45th Assault Division of the People's Army.

José de Palafox y Melci

Stimulated by the appeals of Palafox and of the fierce and resolute demagogues who ruled the mob, the inhabitants resolved to contest possession of the remaining quarters of Saragossa inch by inch, and if necessary to retire to the suburb across the Ebro, destroying the bridge.

Juan O'Neylle

The French had build a pontoon bridge from Almozara to the opposite bank of the Ebro in order to facilitate communication between Gazan's camp and that of the remaining French forces.

Marta Cid i Pañella

She cowrote PHN: la raó d’Estat contra l’Ebre i la Terra (PHN: State reason against the Ebre and the Land) in 2003.


Alcalá de Ebro

According to Jan Morris ("Spain", p. 33), Alcalá del Ebro is the fictional Isla Barataria which Sancho Panza ruled in Don Quixote.

Bardenas Reales

It is located in the middle of the depression of the Ebro valley at the foot of the mountains of the Yugo and the Zaragoza region of Cinco Villas.

Basque Prehistory

Overall the vast majority of important Neolithic sites are placed in the southern part of the country (Ebro valley): Fuente Hoz, Peña Larga, Berniollo and La Renke in Araba; Zatoia, Abauntz, Peña, Padre Areso and Urbasa 11 in Navarre; Herriko Barra in Gipuzkoa.

These people settle mainly in the lowlands, near the rivers Ebro and Adour, in the regions of Araba, Navarre, Labourd and Lower Navarre.

Catalonia Offensive

Along the Segre the Nationalists deployed the Muñoz Grandes's Army of Urgel, the Garcia Valiño's Army of Maestrazgo and the Moscardo's Aragon Army; in the confluence of the Segre with the Ebro the Gambara's Italian Cuerpo Legionario Italiano of four divisions (55,000 men) and Solchaga's Army Corps of Navarra; and in the Ebro the Yagüe's Moroccan Corps.

Clara is the Price

With a budget of 9 million pesetas, the film was shot in studios in Barcelona and exteriors in Cadaques, Ampuriabrava (Girona) and Delta del Ebro (Tarragona).

Hasdrubal the Fair

Thus, he extended the newly acquired empire by skillful diplomacy, consolidating it by founding the important city and naval base of Qart Hadasht, who would be lately called, by the Roman, Carthago Nova (Cartagena) as the capital of the new province, and by a treaty with the Roman Republic which fixed the River Ebro, Iberus in those time, as the boundary between the two powers, establishing Carthage's zone up to his south.

Las Merindades

It is bounded on the north-west by the province of Cantabria, north-east by the province of Biscay, south by La Bureba, south-east by Ebro, south-west by Páramos, and on the east by the province of Álava.

Lusones

The Lusones' lands were located in the Aragonese region along the middle Ebro, on the Moncayo range (Latin: Mons Chaunus) between the Queiles and Huecha rivers, occupying the western Zaragoza and most of Soria, stretching to the northeastern fringe of nearby Guadalajara and southern Navarre provinces.

Raimundo Perellós

Rueda is a rather common name in several places in Spain, but Rueda de Jalón had been always a pivotal center to control and to close, eventually, access by the Castilians to the river Ebro, through the river Jalón, whose sources, located near Medinaceli area, a Castilian area, provided water and fodder for the brisky trade outspots along the river, heavily populated by Muslim farmers and Jewish traders and money changing quarters.

Second Punic War

Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus established his headquarters at Cissa, in the midst of Hannibal's latest acquisition, the area between Ebro and Pyrenees.

Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt

He was captured by the Spanish Guardia Civil while crossing into Spain from Andorra, and was held in jail in Gerona until he was transferred to a concentration camp in Miranda de Ebro.

Zaragoza Offensive

The Kleber's 45h Division would attack south-eastwards towards Saragossa and the 43rd Division would cross the Ebro and cut the highway from Quinto to Saragossa.


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