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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Falange

Spanish political party founded 1933 as a fascist movement; see Falangist. Related: Falangista.

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Falange (disambiguation)

Falange is the name of a political party whose ideology is Falangism.

Falange primarily refers to:

  • Falange Española de las JONS, a Spanish political party active 1933–1937
  • Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista, formed in 1937 of the merger of the Carlist Party with the Falange Española y de las JONS

Falange may also refer to other fascist-type political parties:

  • Authentic Falange, Spanish political party founded in 2002
  • Bolivian Socialist Falange, Bolivian party founded in 1937
  • Lebanese Phalanges Party, another name of the Kataeb Party, a Lebanese party
  • National Falange, Chilean party founded in 1935 and dissolved in 1957

:* Christian Democratic Party (Chile), founded in 1957, successor of the National Falange

Usage examples of "falange".

In terms of this plan, CIA-sponsored troops of the Orthodox Islamic Maoist Falange would rescue the Arab states from the temptations of greed by occupying more than 80 percent of its oil facilities in an action calculated to require less than one minute of actual combat, although it was universally admitted that an additional three months would be required to round up such Arab and Egyptian troops as had fled in panic as far as Rhodesia and Scandinavia.

Five members of a gang of urban vandals and thieves calling themselves the Symbiotic Maoist Falange were put away in an hour-long firefight in which three hundred fifty police SWAT forces, FBI men, and CIA advisers poured thousands of rounds into the house in which they were holed up.

Many years ago, the Basque people gave up the practice of shitting by the roadside, and in doing this we deprived the Falange of its principal source of nourishment.

The fascist party Falange, along with rich landowners, the Pope, Italy, Germany, and the U.