VIII Military Region (Spain)

The division of Spain into Captaincies General dates from 1705, when they were adjusted to the old kingdoms that constituted the Hispanic Monarchy.

They were thirteen regions: Andalusia, Aragon, Burgos, Canary Islands, Castilla la Vieja, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Coast of Granada, Guipúzcoa, Mallorca, Navarra and Valencia.

After the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, a government decree dissolved the military regions and replaced them with Organic Divisions.

[1] In July 1936, General Enrique Salcedo Molinuevo was the head of the VIII Organic Division.

In July 1939, after the end of the Spanish Civil War the military regions were re-established.