Falange Española de las JONS (
Spanish for "Spanish Phalanx of the Committees for the National-Syndicalist Offensive";
FE de las JONS for short), known simply as the
Falange , is the name assigned to several Spanish political movements and parties originating in the late 1930s, a rough contemporary of the
Estado Novo,
Nazism and
Italian Fascism. The word is Spanish for
phalanx. Members of the party were called
Falangists .