Back Cantó de Cartagena Catalan Kantono Kartaĥeno Esperanto Cantón de Cartagena Spanish Cantone di Cartagena Italian 卡塔赫纳州 Chinese
Canton of Cartagena Cantón de Cartagena (Spanish) | |||||||||
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| 1873–1874 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Cartagena | ||||||||
| Government | Commune (junta) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Sexenio Democrático | ||||||||
• Established | July 12, 1873 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | January 12, 1874 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Spain | ||||||||
The Canton of Cartagena (Spanish: Cantón de Cartagena), also known as the Canton of Murcia (Spanish: Cantón Murciano), was a period of Cartagena, Spain's history when it was governed by a radical cantonalist junta for six months between 1873 and 1874. The city rose up in armed insurrection on July 12, 1873 establishing the Canton's de facto independence from the First Spanish Republic and beginning a wave of cantonal rebellions across southern Spain. Loosely inspired by the more well-known Paris Commune two years earlier, the Canton of Cartagena existed during a turbulent revolutionary period of Spanish history known as the Sexenio Democrático.