Brunete

Brunete () is a town located on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, with a population of 10,730 people.

==History== {| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:13px; float:left; margin:5px" |- style="font-size: small;" | colspan="12" style="text-align:center;"|Brunete during the Civil War |- ! from !! to !! duration (days) !! in control of |- | 18 July 1936 || 1 November 1936 || 106 || Republicans |- | 1 November 1936 || 6 July 1937 || 247 || Nationalists |- | 6 July 1937 || 24 July 1937 || 18 || Republicans |- | 24 July 1937 || 1 April 1939 || 616 || Nationalists |} There was no military garrison in Brunete and there was no rebel attempt to seize the city during the coup of July 1936. Brunete remained in the deep rear of the front, in the summer established in Sierra de Guadarrama, some 20 km to the north. The Nationalist 7. Division approached the city in mid-October 1936, and on 18 October the Republican government declared Brunete within zona de guerra. There was no major fighting reported before, on 1 November 1936, the Nationalist troops seized Brunete.