General Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictatorship over Spain began with a coup on 13 September 1923 and ended with his resignation on 28 January 1930. It took place during the wider reign of King Alfonso
(from left) Alfonso XIII and Miguel Primo de Rivera
Announcement of the new government of Primo de Rivera in Madrid, 1923
Poster for the 1929 Iberian-American Exhibition in Seville.
Clara Campoamor – who refused a seat on the National Assembly – in 1930
Rif War
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The Rif War was an anti-colonial war fought from 1921 to 1926 between the indigenous Berber tribes of the mountainous Rif region of northern Morocco and Spain.
Dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera
…Patriótica (UP). It also censored the Spanish press and worked to eliminate separatism in Catalonia. Under Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, Spain won the Rif War, where Spanish forces fought Riffian tribes in Morocco. Primo de Rivera's dictatorship established the Civil Directory in 1925. During the Civil…
(clockwise from top left) Spanish Renault FT-17 stuck in a shellhole Alfonso XIII reviewing troops destined in the Rif Charge of the legionarios Spanish generals overlooking combat from Mount Gourougou Soldiers of the San Fernando Regiment climbing a defense wall Class B submarines of the Spanish Armada
Spanish troops in San Sebastián, prior to their departure to the war
General Fernández Silvestre in Melilla, 1921
Primo de Rivera (front row left) with King Alfonso XIII and other high-ranking Spanish officers