Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas (Casares

Casares, Málaga

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, Spain

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; 5 July 1885 - Seville

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, Spain

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; 11 August 1936). Blas Infante was an andalusist politician, writer, historian and musicologist, known as the "Father" of Andalusian fatherland

Andalusian nationalism

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 (Padre de la Patria Andaluza).

Infante was a Georgist idealist who initiated an assembly at Ronda

Ronda

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 in 1918. This assembly adopted a charter

Charter

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 based on the autonomist Constitución Federal de Antequera written in 1883 during the First Spanish Republic

First Spanish Republic

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. It also embraced the current flag

Flag of Andalusia

The current flag of Andalusia was adopted in 1918. Blas Infante , the "Father" of the Andalusian Fatherland , initiated an assembly at Ronda in 1918...

 and coat of arms

Coat of arms of Andalusia

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 as "national symbols", designed by Infante himself based on various historic Andalusian

Al-Andalus

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 standards. During the Second Spanish Republic

Second Spanish Republic

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, the Andalucismo was represented by the Junta Liberalista, a federalist political party led by Infante.

Infante was among numerous political figures who were summarily executed by Franco

Francisco Franco

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's forces when they took over Seville at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War

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. As both a regional autonomist and a kind of libertarian socialist, he twice "merited" inclusion on their liquidation list.

His last residence in Coria del Río

Coria del Río

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now hosts the Museum of Andalusian Autonomy.

Published works

• La Obra de Costa (1916)
• La Sociedad de Naciones (with J. Andrés Vázquez, 1917)
• Motamid, último rey de Sevilla (1920)
• Cuentos de Animales (1921)
• Los Mandamientos de Dios a favor de los animales (1921)
• La Dictadura pedagógica (1921)
• Reelección Fundamental - Primer Volumen - La Religión y la Moral (1921)
• Orígenes de lo flamenco y secreto del cante jondo (1929–31)
• La verdad sobre el complot de Tablada y el Estado libre de Andalucía (1931)
• Cartas Andalucistas de Septiembre de 1935 (1935)
• Manifiesto a todos los andaluces (1936)

Unpublished works

• Fundamentos de Andalucía - 1ª serie de Cartas Andalucistas (unpublished, 1929)
• El Libro Nuevo (unpublished)
• Almanzor (unpublished)