Sos
del Rey Catolico
Birthplace
of Ferdinand, King of Aragon and Castile (Ferdinand the Catholic
1452-1516) who with Isabella drove the moors from Spain.Ironically almost
500 years later General Francisco Franco (1892-1975) invaded Spain using
Islamic mercenaries from the Spanish colony in Morocco to begin the Spanish
Civil war (1936-39) and to institute his dictatorship which did not end
until his death in 1975 when democracy at last began to flourish in Spain.