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Lluís Companys i Jover (Catalan pronunciation: [ʎuˈis kumˈpaɲs]; 21 June 1882 – 15 October 1940) was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War.
Lluís Companys. Born in Tarròs (Urgell County) in 1882, he was the only elected head of government to be executed during the Second World War. A labour lawyer and one of the leading members of the ERC (Republican Left of Catalonia), he participated in the local elections which would put an end to the Spanish monarchy.
Lluís Companys i Jover [nota 1] (Tarrós, 21 de junio de 1882-Barcelona, 15 de octubre de 1940) fue un político y abogado español, de ideología catalanista y republicana, líder de Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ministro de Marina de España en 1933 y presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña desde 1934 hasta 1940.
Apr 4, 2016 · Lluís Companys i Jover (1882–1940) lived during a complex century, punctuated by civil wars and military coups d’état. As a lawyer and leader of the political party ERC, the republican left of Catalonia, he literally sacrificed his life for the future of Catalonia.
Designed in 1929 by Lluís Abellán Aynés and remodelled in the 1980s, the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys is a first class sports facility and one of the most important elements of the 1992 Olympic Ring on Montjuïc.
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys (Catalan pronunciation: [əsˈtaði uˈlimpiɡ ʎuˈis kumˈpaɲs], formerly known as the Estadi de Montjuïc and Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc) is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Oct 15, 2020 · But who was Lluís Companys? 1931: Macià, Esquerra, and the Catalan Republic. A lawyer from the small town of El Tarròs, in Catalonia’s western agricultural region near Lleida, Companys founded Esquerra Republicana, the still existing Republican Left party, alongside Francesc Macià in 1931.
