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- The Sometent (in Catalan; in Spanish: somatén) was a parapolice institution from Catalonia. In its beginnings it was an armed corps of civilian protection...
- by the summoning of the Sometent (a civil defense organization of Andorra, made up of the heads of households). The Sometent was used sparingly against...
- United States Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 17 June 2012. "El Sometent | Tourism". Turisme.andorralavella.ad. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2012...
- able-bodied men are available to fight if called upon by the sounding of the Sometent. Being a landlocked country, Andorra has no navy. Before World War I, Andorra...
- economy. During the Napoleonic invasion, the volunteer troops of Manresa (sometent in Catalan language) defeated the French troops in the Bruch P**** (June...
- outside Barcelona, local Catalan militia, the Miquelets (also known as sometents), defeated François Xavier de Schwarz's 4,000 troops. Guillaume Philibert...
- agreements known as Sagramental, while the militia corps was known as Sometent. The feudal system allowed to lordships, institutions and corporations...
- forces, composed of militia from the neighboring villages, volunteers (sometent), and Swiss and Walloon soldiers from the Barcelona garrison (2,000 men)...
- the suppression of the army led by General Moragues during the war, the sometent, an institution with the philosophy of national defense which despite this...
- General Chabran's vanguard was attacked and chased away by some 1,200 sometents from El Vendrell and 200 Swiss regulars. When Chabran's emissary returned...