Back معركة بلباو Arabic Бітва пры Більбаа Byelorussian Битка при Билбао Bulgarian Batalla de Bilbao Catalan Batalla de Bilbao Spanish Bilboko gudua (1937) Basque Bataille de Bilbao French Battaglia di Bilbao Italian Batalha de Bilbao Portuguese Битва при Бильбао Russian
| Battle of Bilbao | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Spanish Civil War | |||||||||
.svg) The Northern Front. Bilbao is on the right of the red area. | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Spanish Republic Basque Army |
 Nationalist Spain CTV Condor Legion | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Mariano Gámir Ulíbarri Juan Cueto Ibáñez  Pablo Belderráin Joseph Putz Nino Nanetti † José Antonio Aguirre Alberto Montaud |
Fidel Dávila Arrondo José Solchaga Zala Rafael García Valiño Juan Bautista Sánchez Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 50,000 troops and militia |
60,000 Nationalist troops 15,000 Italian troops | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Unknown |
Nationalist Spain: Unknown Italy: 105 dead 427 wounded 3 missing | ||||||||
The Battle of Bilbao, part of the War in the North in the Spanish Civil War, saw the Nationalist Army capture Bilbao and the rest of the Basque Country that was still being held by the Spanish Republic.