Guardia Civil (Spain)

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Spanish Guardia Civil is a military police and civilian police force founded in 1844 by Queen Isabel II of Spain after the First Carlist War to assure the occupation within the newly created borders at the Pyrenees. Like Italian Carabinieri and French Gendarmerie.

External link

Official web page (http://www.guardiacivil.org/11quees/index.asp)

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