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Red Terror, Spain (Wikipedia)

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A community-edited reference article on the killing of Catholic clergy and religious in Republican-held Spain during the 1936 to 1939 civil war, giving the widely cited breakdown of 6,832 clerical deaths (13 bishops, 4,172 diocesan priests and seminarians, 2,364 monks and friars and 283 nuns), diocese-level figures such as Barbastro (123 of 140 priests killed) and Lleida (270 of 410), church-burning figures, and a range of historians' estimates for the wider Red Terror death toll from Antony Beevor (38,000) to Cesar Vidal (110,965), set against Beevor's and Stanley Payne's estimates for the opposing White Terror.

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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Its clerical death-toll breakdown and diocesan figures are drawn from and consistent with the specialist historians (Beevor, Payne, Carcel Orti) it names and cites.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain) 1
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This source backs 26 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Religious Events, 26 claims: 23 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
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