Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain (España franquista), also known as the Franco dictatorship, officially the Spanish State (Estado Español), was a state in Spanish history established in Nationalist-held territories of Spain ruled by Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 and then comprising the whole of Spain from 1939 until Franco's death in 1975. The regime emerged from the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War and developed into a dictatorship centred on Franco and the institutions of the FET y de las JONS/Movimiento Nacional.