Asturian Nationalist Movements (Spain)

Last modified: 2002-03-29 by santiago dotor
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• Asturian Solidarity (Andecha Astur)
• Asturian Nationalist Council 1977-1981 (Conceyu Nacionalista Astur)
• Asturian Nationalist Assembly 1981-1988 (Ensame Nacionalista Astur)
• Asturian Communist Movement (Movimiento Comunista Asturiano)
• Asturian Nationalist Joint Assembly (Xunta Nacionalista Asturiana)

See also:

• Asturias (Spain)
• Spain
• Spanish political parties and movements

Andecha Astur

by Lluis Nel, modified by Santiago Dotor

The flag reported by Dov Gutterman is that of Andecha Astur, an Asturian nationalist / independentist movement. Note also the flower-like symbol elsewhere in those pages, very similar to that of the Leonese Conceyu Xoven, not unusual since both of them support self-government etc. for Asturian/Leonese speaking regions.

Santiago Dotor, 21 June 1999

Andecha is an Asturian word meaning that a group of friends or neighbours from the same rural area or village help each other to pick and collect the corn of the neighbouring fields. Thus, Andecha will come to mean group work (in the expression