hermandadn.
/ɛrmanˈdad/ In Spain, originally the name of popular combinations formed chiefly to resist the exactions and robberies of the nobles, to which were subsequently given general police functions; in 1476 was formed the Santa Hermandad or Holy Brotherhood, a voluntary organization embracing the whole country, which was afterwards reorganized as a regular national police.
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holy brotherhooda1739
hermandad1772
religious police1775
state police1779
gendarmerie1792
police1798
Scotland Yard1830
guardia civil1846
RCMP1920
RUC1922
Arab Legion1923
Garda Síochána1923
Schupo1923
Mets1944
Vopo1954
maréchaussée1955
U.S.C.1963
Garda1970
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 98 The officers and soldiers of the garrisons, the alcades in office and of the hermandad, and the town clerk.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xiv. 45 To this end, the principal cities and communities of Aragon had recently adopted the institution of the hermandad.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 41 ‘Miquelites’..are the modern ‘Hermandad’, the brotherhood which formed the old Spanish rural armed police.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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