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The new Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, approved by referendum, was contested by important sectors of the Spanish nationalism and the conservative People's Party, sending the law to the partisan Constitutional Court of Spain which, in 2010, decided to declare nonvalid some of the articles that established an autonomous Catalan system of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. People from Catalonia and Northern Catalonia For other uses, see Catalan (disambiguation). Ethnic group Catalans [a] Total population c. 9 million Regions with significant populations Spain (people born in Catalonia of any ethnicity; excludes ethnic Catalans in other regions in Spain ...
To date this event is the largest pro-Constitution and anti-independence demonstration in the history of Catalonia. [160] [161] On 12 October 2017, 65,000 people, according to the Barcelona police, marched against independence in a smaller demonstration marking the Spanish national day. The turnout was thirteen times more than the prior year ...
Les Homilies d'Organyà (12th century), first written in Catalan.. By the 9th century, the Catalan language had developed from Vulgar Latin on both sides of the eastern end of the Pyrenees mountains (counties of Rosselló, Empúries, Besalú, Cerdanya, Urgell, Pallars and Ribagorça), as well as in the territories of the Roman province and later archdiocese of Tarraconensis to the south. [1]
People's Army of Catalonia raised. 1937: 3 May: May Days, clashes between the anarchists and POUM versus the forces of the Republic and the Generalitat, supported by the PSUC. The Republic recovered full control of Catalonia. 1938: 5 April: General Francisco Franco decrees the suppression of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia and the ...
The Parliament of Catalonia (Catalan: Parlament de Catalunya) is the unicameral legislative body of the Generalitat and represents the people of Catalonia. Its 135 members (diputats) are elected by universal suffrage to serve for a four-year period. According to the Statute of Autonomy, it has powers to legislate over devolved matters such as ...
Torre de nou [17]: two people per level in a tower of nine stories. Cinc de nou amb folre [18]: five people at each level in a tower of nine levels, with a second-level folre built on top of the base-level pinya. Quatre de nou amb agulla [19]: four people at each level in a tower of nine levels, with an interior agulla.
3. You'll want to branch out into Catalan wines. Many people think of rioja when they think of Spanish wine.While I can certainly drink wines from La Rioja in Catalonia, the waiter is much ...