Juan Carlos I of Spain Juan Carlos I of Spain Juan Carlos I (; Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a former King of Spain, reigning from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. Juan Carlos is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last king of Spain before the abolition of the monarchy in 1931 and the subsequent declaration of the Second Spanish Republic. Juan Carlos was born in Rome, Italy, during his family's exile. "Generalísimo" Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator who initiated the civil war by means of a coup d'état against the constitutional republic in
Juan Carlos Xama to the French, "Orhypean. Le pays de la langue basque" (2010) and Catalan, Orhypean. The country of the Basque region (2012) In 2009, "Basque" was published : its language through history the Castilian version of Euskara Jendea , an approximation to the evolution of the language of the Basques throughout history. Juan Carlos Xama Juan Carlos Etxegoien Juanarena Xamar (born 27 November 1956) is a Navarrese teacher and writer in the Basque language. He is better known as Xamar, a derivation of the name of the Xamarrena hamlet, where he was born. Xama was born in Xamarrena de Garralda, Navarra.