Name: Siege of the Loyola barracks
Start: 1936-07-21
End: 1936-07-27
Location: Siege of the Loyola barracks

Siege of the Loyola barracks 1936

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Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.

Key facts

Date	21 July 1936 – 27 July 1936	Wikidata
Year	1936	Wikidata P580 (start time)
Era	Interwar (1919–1938)	derived from year
Location	Spain	Natural Earth (modern borders)
Continent	Europe	Natural Earth
War / conflict	Spanish coup of July 1936	Wikidata P361
Coordinates	43.3099, -1.9661	Wikidata P625

About the battle

The siege of the Loyola barracks (Spanish: Sitio del Cuartel de Loyola) was a siege and uprising at the military barracks in the Loyola neighborhood of San Sebastián, Spain, on 21 July 1936. It was part of the Spanish coup of July 1936 against the Second Spanish Republic, which led to the start of the Spanish Civil War.

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