Phalanx CIWS — Phalanx (Block 1A) live fire test, USS Monterey (CG 61) Type … Wikipedia
Phalanx — (From Ancient Greek polytonic| ( finger )) can have many meanings, as the original Greek also did: The Greek meaning was one of a military formation, it consisted of four sides resembling a rectangle. For the most part this strategy worked but… … Wikipedia
Spanish Civil War — Spanish Civil War … Wikipedia
phalanx — /fay langks, fal angks/, n., pl. phalanxes or, for 7, phalanges /feuh lan jeez/, v. n. 1. (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping. 2. any body … Universalium
Falange — This article is about the Spanish political party: For the Lebanese Phalange, see the Kataeb Party. Spanish Phalanx of the Assemblies of the National Syndicalist Offensive Falange Española de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista … Wikipedia
Falange — /fay lanj/; Sp. /fah lahn he/, n. the official state political party in Spain from 1936 until disbandment in 1977. [ < Sp, short for Falange Española Tradicionalista Traditionalist Spanish Phalanx] * * * (Spanish: Phalanx ) Extreme nationalist… … Universalium
José Antonio Primo de Rivera — For other people called Jose Rivera, see Jose Rivera (disambiguation). This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Primo de Rivera and the second or maternal family name is Sáenz de Heredia. José Antonio Primo de… … Wikipedia
falangist — noun a Spanish member of General Franco s political party • Syn: ↑phalangist • Hypernyms: ↑fascist * * * fəˈlanjə̇st also ˈfāˌl or fāˈl noun ( s) … Useful english dictionary
Falangist — 1937, member of the Falange, the fascist party in Spain (founded 1933), from Sp. Falange (Española) (Spanish) Phalanx, from L. phalanx (gen. phalangis); see PHALANX (Cf. phalanx) … Etymology dictionary
National Movement — The Movimiento Nacional, more often known simply as the Movimiento, was the amalgam of political forces which supported the Spanish dictatorship from 1939 to 1975. It was designed, in the propaganda of the regime, to be the institutional and… … Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture
Falangist — noun Etymology: Spanish falangista, from Falange española Spanish Phalanx, a fascist organization Date: 1936 a member of the fascist political party governing Spain after the civil war of 1936 39 … New Collegiate Dictionary
