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Romanization brought a second, distinct stage in the ancient history of Catalonia. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus arrived in Empúries in 218 BC, with the objective of cutting off the sources of provisions of Hannibal's Carthaginian army during the Second Punic War. After the Carthaginian defeat, and the defeat of various Iberian tribes who ...
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This is a collection of articles about the history of Catalonia and its people. Wikimedia Commons has media related to History of Catalonia . The main article for this category is History of Catalonia .
Compromise of Caspe, representatives of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia elected Ferdinand of the Castilian House of Trastámara as the new King of Aragon. 1413: Defeat of count James II of Urgell, claimant of the throne of Aragon, at the siege of Balaguer. 1428: 2 February: Earthquake with an epicentre in Northern Catalonia. 1450: University of ...
Afterwards, in 1938 and within the context of the Spanish Civil War, the National Archive of Catalonia moved to the monastery of Pedralbes, until the documents were spread throughout Catalonia in order to save them from war's threat. Once the war was over, Franquism confiscated all the documents, known from that moment on as Salamanca Papers ...
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The history of Barcelona stretches over 2000 years to its origins as an Iberian village named Barkeno. [1] Its easily defensible location on the coastal plain between the Collserola ridge (512 m) and the Mediterranean Sea , the coastal route between central Europe and the rest of the Iberian Peninsula , has ensured its continued importance, if ...