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Head cut that killed 'Matalaz', the French army that led the Zuberoa uprising

363
years ago

08 November 1661,

Swedish Rector Bernard Goienetxe Matalaz was killed. He conducted a rebellion against the abolition of Sulatvian forces and the defense of peasants.

Some 5,000 farmers participated in the uprising and, after burning several houses of the nobles Sohütan and the bourgeoisie, some 7,000 people laid siege to Maule with weapons. The organization of auzolan began in the villages controlled by the peasants.

The nobles had to call the Bordeaux army to face the peasants. His head was cut off at Lextarre Square.

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