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The ridge's highest point is '''Alt dels Auts''' ({{lang-es|Alto de los Auts}}), a 434 m high summit. |
The ridge's highest point is '''Alt dels Auts''' ({{lang-es|Alto de los Auts}}), a 434 m high summit. |
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The Auts are desolate-looking [[limestone]] mountains, smooth, with low and scruffy vegetation and numerous denuded patches. In some documents in the [[Spanish language]], these hills appear under the name ''Sierra de Mequinenza'', but they are actually not a proper "sierra".<ref>[http://www.dpz.es/turismo/multimedia/no_editados_patronato/rutas/viajar-aragon/viajararagon-n42-1.pdf Caspe y el Bajo Aragón]</ref> |
The Auts are desolate-looking [[limestone]] mountains, smooth, with low and scruffy vegetation and numerous denuded patches. In some documents in the [[Spanish language]], these hills appear under the name ''Sierra de Mequinenza'', but they are actually not a proper "sierra".<ref>[http://www.dpz.es/turismo/multimedia/no_editados_patronato/rutas/viajar-aragon/viajararagon-n42-1.pdf Caspe y el Bajo Aragón] {{wayback|url=http://www.dpz.es/turismo/multimedia/no_editados_patronato/rutas/viajar-aragon/viajararagon-n42-1.pdf |date=20101215073120 |df=y }}</ref> |
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==Origin of the name== |
==Origin of the name== |
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On 25 July 1938 the [[42nd Division, Spanish Republican Army|42nd Division]] of the [[Spanish Republican Army]] successfully crossed the river in this area and occupied the Auts area taking positions in the hills. |
On 25 July 1938 the [[42nd Division, Spanish Republican Army|42nd Division]] of the [[Spanish Republican Army]] successfully crossed the river in this area and occupied the Auts area taking positions in the hills. |
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Initially the feat of the Republican troops was hailed as a great victory by the [[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republic]], eager to see a positive outcome of the Battle of the Ebro effort. But the [[226th Mixed Brigade (Spain)|226th]] and [[227th Mixed Brigade (Spain)|227th]] [[mixed brigade]]s of the division<ref name="SBHAC">[http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/EPR/EprL/BM226.htm SBHAC - Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular, 226ª Brigada Mixta]</ref><ref name="CE">Carlos Engel, ''Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del E. P. de la República'', 1999</ref> were soon surrounded and relentlessly massacred in the Auts by [[General Franco]]'s [[rebel faction]]. After having suffered a great number of casualties the few battered survivors of the division had to cross back the Ebro River.<ref>[http://aamr.cat/Articles/La_batalla_de%20l'Ebre_catala.htm La batalla de l'Ebre - Association of Former Republican Soldiers]</ref> There is a monument to the many soldiers who died in the Auts at the feet of the range near the road leading to Mequinensa.<ref>[https://orimiro78.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/batalla-de-lebre-2007/ La Batalla de l’Ebre a l’any 2007]</ref> |
Initially the feat of the Republican troops was hailed as a great victory by the [[Second Spanish Republic|Spanish Republic]], eager to see a positive outcome of the Battle of the Ebro effort. But the [[226th Mixed Brigade (Spain)|226th]] and [[227th Mixed Brigade (Spain)|227th]] [[mixed brigade]]s of the division<ref name="SBHAC">[http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/EPR/EprL/BM226.htm SBHAC - Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular, 226ª Brigada Mixta]</ref><ref name="CE">Carlos Engel, ''Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del E. P. de la República'', 1999</ref> were soon surrounded and relentlessly massacred in the Auts by [[General Franco]]'s [[rebel faction]]. After having suffered a great number of casualties the few battered survivors of the division had to cross back the Ebro River.<ref>[http://aamr.cat/Articles/La_batalla_de%20l'Ebre_catala.htm La batalla de l'Ebre - Association of Former Republican Soldiers]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> There is a monument to the many soldiers who died in the Auts at the feet of the range near the road leading to Mequinensa.<ref>[https://orimiro78.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/batalla-de-lebre-2007/ La Batalla de l’Ebre a l’any 2007]</ref> |
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[[File:Batalla Ebro.png|thumb|left|Map of the [[Battle of the Ebro]] .]] |
[[File:Batalla Ebro.png|thumb|left|Map of the [[Battle of the Ebro]] .]] |
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Revision as of 08:14, 22 October 2016
| Auts | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 434 m (1,424 ft) |
| Listing | List of mountains in Aragon |
| Geography | |
  Auts Spain | |
| Location | Bajo Aragón-Caspe (Aragon) |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Sedimentary rock |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Unknown |
| Easiest route | Drive from Fayón |
Auts (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈawts]) is a small mountain range west of the Ebro river in the Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp comarca, Aragon, Spain. It is located about 9 km north of Fayón (Faió), close to the road between Maella and Mequinenza (Mequinensa).[1] The ridge's highest point is Alt dels Auts (Spanish: Alto de los Auts), a 434 m high summit.
The Auts are desolate-looking limestone mountains, smooth, with low and scruffy vegetation and numerous denuded patches. In some documents in the Spanish language, these hills appear under the name Sierra de Mequinenza, but they are actually not a proper "sierra".[2]
Origin of the name
The name "Auts" comes most likely from an ancient Catalan word for "heights", "alts" in modern Catalan. Referring to hills this name appears, for example, in Ramon Llull's following text:
«Los cavaliers veem que fant castells i forces en los auts munts, per tal que si son vensuts ni sobrats en los píans, que fugen en los munts».[3]
History
These moderately high, dry mountains were the scenario of one of the most bloody confrontations during the Battle of the Ebro in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). On 25 July 1938 the 42nd Division of the Spanish Republican Army successfully crossed the river in this area and occupied the Auts area taking positions in the hills.
Initially the feat of the Republican troops was hailed as a great victory by the Spanish Republic, eager to see a positive outcome of the Battle of the Ebro effort. But the 226th and 227th mixed brigades of the division[4][5] were soon surrounded and relentlessly massacred in the Auts by General Franco's rebel faction. After having suffered a great number of casualties the few battered survivors of the division had to cross back the Ebro River.[6] There is a monument to the many soldiers who died in the Auts at the feet of the range near the road leading to Mequinensa.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Map of the Area
- ^ Caspe y el Bajo Aragón Template:Wayback
- ^ Ramon Llull, Llibre de Conlemplacló en Déu, 112, 22.
- ^ SBHAC - Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular, 226ª Brigada Mixta
- ^ Carlos Engel, Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del E. P. de la República, 1999
- ^ La batalla de l'Ebre - Association of Former Republican Soldiers[permanent dead link]
- ^ La Batalla de l’Ebre a l’any 2007
Bibliography
- Jaume Aguadé i Sordé, El diari de guerra de Lluís Randé i Inglés; Batalles del Segre i de l’Ebre i camps de concentració (abril 1938 - juliol 1939), El Tinter ISBN 84-9791-082-6