Camp d’Argelès

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Camp d’Argelès was a French internment camp established in 1939 on the beach at Argelès-sur-Mer to hold Spanish Republican refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Camp d’Argelès canonical 1
Camp d’Argelès-sur-Mer 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf internment camp
refugee camp
alsoKnownAs Argelès concentration camp
Camp d’Argelès-sur-Mer
linked to: Camp d’Argelès
borderRegion Franco-Spanish border
category Refugee camps in France
Spanish Republican exile in France
World War II internment camps in France
commemoratedBy Musée du mémorial d’Argelès-sur-Mer
conditions exposed to the elements
overcrowded
unsanitary
continent Europe
country France
createdBy French Third Republic
established 1939
event Retirada
hasLanguage Catalan
French
Spanish
hasMemorial Memorial at Argelès-sur-Mer
historicalEra World War II era
interwar period
inceptionContext aftermath of the Spanish Civil War
infrastructure barbed wire enclosures
tents
wooden barracks
locatedIn Argelès-sur-Mer
Occitanie
Pyrénées-Orientales
locatedOn Argelès-sur-Mer beach
Mediterranean Sea
mainInmates Spanish Civil War combatants
Spanish civilians
mainInmates Spanish Republican refugees
namedAfter Argelès-sur-Mer
nearbyCity Perpignan
operatedBy French authorities
purpose containment of Spanish Civil War refugees
internment of Spanish Republican refugees
relatedConflict Spanish Civil War
timePeriod 20th century
usedFor civilian internment
military refugee internment

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Argelès-sur-Mer hasCamp Camp d’Argelès
Camp d’Argelès alsoKnownAs Camp d’Argelès-sur-Mer
linked to: Camp d’Argelès