The 22nd Division was one of the divisions of the Spanish Republican Army that were organized during the Spanish Civil War on the basis of the Mixed Brigades.
1] The unit, made up of 51st, 78th and 93rd mixed brigades,[2] was initially under the command of Antonio Gómez de Salazar and, later, Urbano Orad de la Torre.
[1][3] As of June 1937, the division was integrated into the IX Army Corps, on the Andalusian front.
[4] In the spring of 1938 the division was sent as reinforcement to the Levante front, being added to the XXI Army Corps.
[5] The division was later assigned to the XXIII Army Corps, where it remained until the end of the war.