Fourth Andalusian-Spanish War (World of Sultans)

The Second Andalusian-Spanish War (Arabic: الثانية الحرب الأندلسية الإسبانية) (Spanish: Segunda Guerra andaluza-Español) was fought between the Republic (later Kingdom) of Spain and the Republic of Andalusia from 1940-1945, though some believe that it ended in 1943 when King Carlos of Spain and President Juan Assad of Andalusia signed the Madrid Treaty putting an end to the military combat.

The Spanish forces enjoyed early success, due to Italian support thereby gaining access to the new military technology of the team. Despite this, the Andalusian forces use extreme wit and stubbornness to fight and overcome the Italian and German-supported Spanish forces, until Juan Assad recieved American aid allowing the Andalusians to par with the Spaniards.

Background
In the 1930s, the Kingdom of Spain and Kingdom of Andalusia underwent civil wars. Shortly after the Soviet-supported Republican armies lost the Spanish Civil War, the influenced spread into Andalusia where the Catholic Moriscos led by Juan Assad and Muslim Moors led by Abd-Rabbuh al-Yusuf al-Saab both formed militant groups against the state army of Andalusia which became the Royalists. In 1948, the Jews of Andalusia formed militant groups under the leadership of Alberto ibn Maymun, a rabbi and the leader of the Jewish community of Andalusia. At first, the Catholics and Muslims fought against one another but eventually united in 1939 to fight the Royalists. In 1939, King Boutros Humeya was able to peacefully exile in Spain and the Republic of Andalusia came to be, with Juan Assad as its president and Alberto Ibn Maymun as its prime minister.

In 1940, Benito Mussolini of Italy convinced Spain to invade Andalusia. The Italians promised that Spain would share control of the Iberian Peninsula with Italy, so it would serve as a supply route for Italians in Libya.

Course of the War
Spain eventually agreed with Italy to invade Andalusia. The Italians would provide Spain its military support, providing them with state of the art military technology of the time. The Italians supplied Spain with tanks, machine guns and other means of high technology.

Andalusia's army on the other hand, though large, effecient and well-trained did not compare to the high technology of the Spanish armies. They relied on old Soviet technology supplied to them by Spanish Republicans.

The Spanish forces eventually launched their invasion from Granada in 1940, penetrating well-deep into Andalusia despite some stubborn resistance from Andalusian troops. At the cost of 100 Spanish troops, about 1,231 Andalusian soldiers died. Andalusia and Spain eventually entered World War II as part of the European Theater. The Libyans used this as oppurtunity to recieve independance from Italian rule. About 2,000 Libyan and 509 Moroccan volunteers joined the Andalusian forces in fighting the Italian-backed Spanish army.

Under the leadership of Juan Assad, the poorly-equipped Andalusian army eventually overcame their technology disadvantage, fighting with stubbornness and will which eventually exhausted the Spanish forces of their supplies, and the Andalusians ended up pushing the Spanish armies back to Granada in 1941. About 10,000 Andalusian soldiers took part in the invasion and siege of Granada, only 1,334 troops remained alive, although the Spanish soldiers had retreated from Granada and Assad assumed Granada now Andalusian territory. Eventually, in November 3, 1941 Spanish forces returned to began to pound Granada and the Andalusian forces stationed there where they fought for four months.

On February 1, 1942, fresh Spanish reinforcements invaded and lay siege to Cordoba, crushing the Andalusian forces stationed around the city. Eventually in March 1942, Assad eventually called for American help and Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a large but limited amount of supplies to the Andalusian armed forces. The first Sherman and M60 Patton tanks arrived on April 11, 1942 to drive the Spanish out of Cordoba. At that same time, Spain underwent another civil war. King Carlos I, the new King of Spain could not handle the magnitude of having to fight a war and a civil war and offered a truce to Juan Assad in Madrid, in Spain and signed a treaty. King Carlos was only putting a temporary halt to the war.

Juan Assad then decided to liberate Libya from Italian Fascist rule, and sent Andalusian forces to attack Italian strongholds in Libya as a token of appreciation for Libyan support to Andalasia's cause, Italian forces retreated in 1943 and the Andalusians and Libyans celebrated it as their victory. The Italians however claimed that they were retreating from Americans and would have still defeated the Arabs.

The war was resurfaced in 1944 when the Kingdom of Spain invaded Granada in an attempt to retake it from Andalusian control. The Andalusians and Spanish would end up fighting for a year over Granada, until the U.N. finally ceded Granada to Andalusian control in 1945, for a large payment and amnesty towards Spain for supporting the Fascists, shortly after King Carlos was overthrown by Francisco Franco.