Euzko Gudarostea

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Basque Army
Euzko Gudarostea
Chief of Staff
Alberto de Montaud Noguerol
Political commissarJusto Somonte Iturrioz
Notable
commanders
Kandido Saseta  
Jose Antonio Agirre

Euzko Gudarostea (spelled in modern

lehendakari José Antonio Aguirre and coordinating with the army of the Second Spanish Republic. It fought the troops of Francisco Franco
during 1936 and 1937. It surrendered to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie at Santoña (province of Cantabria), while the rest of the Republican army kept fighting until 1939. This event is called the Santoña Agreement, Pact of Santoña, or Treason of Santoña by some Spanish leftists.

Gudari

The Basque word for a soldier, gudari (plural gudariak), is a neologism (from guda, "war", thus meaning "warrior" literally). The Standard Basque word is the Romance-derived soldadu.[1] Like other

lendakari
), the meaning of gudari has been restricted to Basque concepts. The Basque word for an army is the Romance-derived armada.

PNV members celebrate the Gudari Eguna.
Members of ETA shoot salvoes in the Gudari Eguna.

The members of the Basque militant ETA consider themselves gudariak continuing the struggle of the Civil War Basque soldiers. This is contested by those war veterans that support the

Communist Party
.

The Gudari Eguna ("warrior day") is thus celebrated separately:

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