Northwest Military Intermediate Archive

It is a state-owned archive integrated into the Archival System of Defense and dependent on the Institute of Military History and Culture (Spanish Army, Ministry of Defense), and aims to organize, protect, preserve and disseminate the documentary heritage of the Spanish Army in the service of research, culture, information and administrative management.

In accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 2598/1998, of 4 December, it is a public archive, accessible to research and receiving the closed documentation of more than 5 years from the different central archives of the Military Units, Centers and Agencies located in the Autonomous Communities of Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Galicia, Basque Country and La Rioja, and to transfer documents more than 20 years old to the Military General Archives.

Due to the characteristics of its documentary funds, the Archive provides a preferential service to the consultation of documents for the exercise of rights, but also facilitates the consultation for cultural and research purposes of any document, except those containing data that are restricted by the provisions in force.

In addition to the funds corresponding to its area of competence, known as administrative funds, the Northwest Military Intermediate Archive guards on deposit the cases and procedures corresponding to the military justice organs of the northwest of the Peninsula belonging to the Military Court IV, based in the city of A Coruña.

Name of the resource	Extreme dates	Number of records	Observations
List of holders of judicial proceedings - Province of Araba/Álava	1900-1960	3.349	It includes the proceedings instituted in the province of Araba/Álava, mostly by the military courts, as well as by courts of first instance and investigation of that province related to the finding of corpses during the Spanish War and after the war.
List of holders of judicial proceedings - Province of Burgos	1900-1962	20.078	It includes the proceedings conducted in the province of Burgos, and the sumarímos conducted by the Military Court of Foreign Prisoners against the brigadistas prisoners in the concentration camp of San Pedro de Cardeña and those of the Military Court of the Foreign Concentration Depot of Miranda del Ebro.
List of holders of judicial proceedings - Province of León	1934-1962	9,716	It includes the procedures taught in the province of León, mostly in Astorga, León and Ponferrada, although there are also procedures taught in other localities of the province
List of holders of judicial proceedings - Province of Salamanca		7.935	It includes the procedures taught in the province of Salamanca. It also incorporates the sums taught by the Spanish Army and those taught by the Special Military Court of the Air Force.
List of Holders of Judicial Proceedings - Province of Soria	1936-1950	297	It includes the procedures instructed in the province of Soria. The other part of the sums trained in the province is in the Territorial Military Court No. 32 (Zaragoza)
List of holders of judicial proceedings - Province of Valladolid	1900-1962	5.212	It collects the procedures instructed in the province of Valladolid
List of holders of judicial proceedings - Province of Zamora	1934-1962	3.168	It includes the proceedings instituted in the province of Zamora, mostly by the military courts of the rebels as well as by courts of first instance and investigation of that province related to the finding of corpses during the Spanish War and after the war.

Information extracted from the Ministry of Defense. General Subdirectorate of Publications and Cultural Heritage

Date of update: 01/27/2023