Before that, during the 40-year-long dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, domestic violence was not considered a crime.
He fled from the Republican north to France, returning later to an area held by Francisco Franco's victorious rebels.
Republicanism is still a potent force in Spain, less than 40 years after the end of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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In 1939, Britain and France recognized Francisco Franco's rebel government in Spain.
Francisco Franco, who waged a ruthless campaign to suppress Basque language and culture, centred in several provinces in northern Spain and southern France.
Regional separatism was repressed during the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco but when Spain returned to democracy, after Franco's death in 1975, its provinces were given substantial autonomy.
King Juan Carlos, whose throne was restored in 1975, was the most popular public figure in Spain in the late 1970s because of his role in supporting the transition to democracy after the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
Spaniards generally hold the king in high regard for his service to the nation and his defense of democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1975 -- especially the king's decisive stand to halt a right-wing military coup in 1981.
"Russian rock songwriting at its best has been very specific to Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, " said Peter Varshavsky, who heads the San Francisco-based label Porto Franco Records and has represented Russian rock bands.
Will (James Franco, trying harder than usual), a young genetic engineer working for a San Francisco biotech company, brings home and raises Caesar, a young chimp with enhanced brain cells.
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