Siege of Oviedo | |||||||
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Part of the Spanish Civil War | |||||||
A bunker at the outskirts of Oviedo |
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Belligerents | |||||||
Second Spanish Republic |
Nationalist Spain | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
UGT miner, Otero |
Colonel Antonio Aranda Mata | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown | 3,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
5,000+ | 2,500 |
Second Spanish Republic
Popular Front militia units CNT-FAI
UGT miner, Otero
The Siege of Oviedo was a siege in the Spanish Civil War that lasted from July 19 until October 16, 1936. The town garrison, under the command of Colonel Antonio Aranda Mata, declared for the Nationalist uprising and held out until relieved by a Nationalist force.
The Nationalists did not consider Oviedo, capital of the province of Asturias, as a likely place for a successful revolt, and initially it was considered a lost cause for the uprising. The town was the center of the Asturian October Revolution of 1934, and became an ongoing hive of revolutionary activity since the election of the Popular Front government earlier in the year.