History of Catalonia - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Catalonia Historic Territory: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalonia Historic Territory - History Of Catalonia
Main article: History of Catalonia Catalonia historic territory - Development of Catalonia as part of the Crown of Aragon into a Mediter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - Catalonia Aragon And Castile
History of Catalonia - Union with Aragon. Until the middle of the 12th century, the successive counts of Barcelona tried to expand thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalonia: Encyclopedia - Catalonia
Total (2002) GDP: $146.1 billion GDP per /capita: $26,550 (2nd) Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya; Spanish: Cataluña; Aranese: Catalonha) is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visigoth: Encyclopedia - Visigoth
The Visigoths were one of two main branches of the Goths, the Ostrogoths being the other. Together these tribes were among the loosely-te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalonia - Politics Of Catalonia
The first Catalan constitutions are of the Corts of Barcelona from 1283. The last ones were promulgated by the court of 1702. The compila...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visigoth: Encyclopedia Ii - Visigoth - Early History
The Visigoths first appeared in history as a distinct people in the year 268 when they invaded the Roman Empire and swarmed over the Balk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalan Countries: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalan Countries - Different Meanings And Controversy
The term may be used with a strictly cultural/linguistic rather than nationalistic meaning, somewhat analogously to La Francophonie or Hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalan Countries: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalan Countries - Different Meanings And Controversy
The term may be used with a strictly cultural/linguistic rather than nationalistic meaning, somewhat analogously to Francophony or Hispan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Urgell: Encyclopedia - Urgell
Urgell is one of the historical Catalan counties, bordering on the counties of Pallars and Cerdagne. Its maximal extension territory was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalonia - Administration And Government Of Catalonia
The Generalitat is the institution of government in Catalonia. It consists of a Parliament, a President and an Executive Council. [1] The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Muret: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Muret
At the Battle of Muret on September 12, 1213 the Crusading army of Simon IV de Montfort defeated the Aragonese and Catalan forces of Pete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visigoth: Encyclopedia Ii - Visigoth - Visigothic Kingdom In Iberia
The Visigoths soon became the dominant power in Iberia. They quickly crushed the Alans and by 429 they forced the Vandals from the penins...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalonia - Geography
The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia borders on Land of Valencia to the south, Aragon to the west, France and Andorra to the nor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalonia - Language
Catalonia is the original heartland of Catalan, and remains the most important and largest territory where the language is spoken. Catala...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visigoth: Encyclopedia Ii - Visigoth - Visigoths As Tervingi
The naming of this people is problematic. Some time shortly after 291 Mamertinus made a eulogy of Emperor Maximian (285-308) in which he ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visigoth: Encyclopedia Ii - Visigoth - Visigothic Kingdom In Aquitaine
From 407 to 409 the Vandals, with the allied Alans and Germanic tribes like the Suevi, swept into the Iberian peninsula. In response to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Visigoth: Encyclopedia Ii - Visigoth - Kings Of The Visigoths
Visigoth - Early kings. Fritigern (369–380) Athanaric (369–381) Visigoth - Balti dynasty. Alaric I (395–410) Ataulf (410–4...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Muret: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Muret - Background
Simon IV de Montfort was the leader of the Albigensian Crusade to destroy the Cathar heresy. He invaded Toulouse and exiled its count, Ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tragic Week: Encyclopedia Ii - Tragic Week - Aftermath
Police and army casualties were 8 dead and 124 wounded. Of the civilians, 104-150 (the numbers vary) were reportedly killed. The governme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prince Of Girona: Encyclopedia Ii - Prince Of Girona - Origin
The title of Prince of Girona comes from the Crown of Aragon, more precisely when in the year 1351, the king Pere IV of Aragon nominated ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalonia Historic Territory: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalonia Historic Territory - The Principality
The Principality of Catalonia (Catalan: el Principat de Catalunya), or simply the Principality (Catalan: el Principat), is one of the tra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Muret: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Muret - The Battle
Simon de Montfort led an army of 800 French Crusaders, along with a small contingent of knights brought by his ally, the viscount of Corb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catalonia Historic Territory: Encyclopedia Ii - Catalonia Historic Territory - Language
Main article: Catalan language Catalonia constitutes the original nucleus where Catalan is spoken. Catalan is regarded by most linguists ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - The Carlist Wars
The reign of Ferdinand VII (reigned 1808–1833) saw several Catalan uprisings and after his death the conflict over the succession betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - Catalan Nationalism And The Workers Movement
In 1874, a coup by General Martínez Campos in Sagunto led to a restoration of the Bourbon dynasty in the person of Alfonso XII. A period...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - Franco's Dictatorship
As in the rest of Spain, the Franco era (1939–1975) in Catalonia saw the annulment of democratic liberties, the prohibition and persecu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - Republic And Civil War
After the fall of Primo de Rivera, the Catalan left made great efforts to create a united front under Francesc Macià. The Esquerra Repub...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - The Napoleonic Wars
In the 1790s, new conflicts arose on the French border, due to the French Revolution and the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1808, during t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - The Reapers' War
The Reapers' War or Guerra dels Segadors (1640–1652), also known as the War for Catalan Independence, started as an uprising of peasant...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - Prehistory In Catalonia
The first known human settlements in what is now Catalonia were at the beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic. The oldest known traces of h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - The Rise Of Iberian Culture
During the period of Iberian civilization, the Catalan territory was home to several distinct tribes: The Indiketes in Empordà, the Cere...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - Roman Times
Romanization brought a second, distinct stage in the ancient history of Catalonia. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus arrived in Ampurias, wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - From Late Antiquity To Feudalism
History of Catalonia - Visigothic and Muslim rule. The Crisis of the Third Century affected the whole Roman Empire, and gravely affecte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Catalonia: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Catalonia - War Of The Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1705–1714) resulted in the revocation of Catalonia's traditional autonomy and privileges. Afterwards...   » Read the article