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Bazan

Bazán, Ciudad Real, a Spanish village formed by the Franco regime's Instituto Nacional de Colonización

Instituto Nacional de Colonización

Many of the new villages were given a name related to the nearest river or even a name with an explicit reference to the Caudillo in order to cast a benevolent image of dictator Francisco Franco, like Llanos del Caudillo, Villafranco del Delta, a village in the Montsià comarca nowadays rechristened as El Poblenou del Delta or Isla Mayor near Seville, the former Villafranco del Guadalquivir.

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Sucs, Province of Lleida, was an abandoned town, renovated and repopulated under the Franco plan.

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