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Barcelona's suburbs, such as L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Bellvitge, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Adrià de Besòs, and Badalona, also saw a dramatic population increase over a single decade. [149] The city now had an extremely dense population (1,557,863 inhabitants, 15,517 per km 2, in 1970), often housed in very poor quality accommodations ...
Furthermore, Barcelona was Europe's fourth best business city and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17% per year as of 2009. [ 106 ] Barcelona was the 24th most "livable city" in the world in 2015 according to lifestyle magazine Monocle . [ 107 ]
1831 - Bonaplata Factory, El Vapor founded; 1833 – City becomes capital of newly created Province of Barcelona. [2] 1834 – Sociedad Económica Barcelonesa de Amigos del País established. [12] 1842 – Bombardment of Barcelona (1842). [4] 1847 Gran Teatre del Liceu opens. Barcelona City Hall expanded. [1] 1848 Mataró-Barcelona railway ...
Barcelona: 50,000 60,000 – 70,000 ... City Country 1675 1700 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1862 1875 1900 ... List of cities in Europe;
Since then, these last three counties were always ruled by the same person, becoming the political core of the future Principality of Catalonia. Upon his death in 897 Wilfred made their titles hereditaries and thus founded the dynasty of the House of Barcelona, which ruled Catalonia until the death of Martin I, its last ruling member, in 1410 ...
The list shows large groupings associated with the dates of independence from decolonization (e.g., 41 current states gained control of sovereignty from the United Kingdom and France between 1956 and 1966) or dissolution of a political union (e.g., 18 current states gained control of sovereignty from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia between 1990 ...
Barcelona conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Barcelona. 826: Aissó Revolt against Frankish nobility, devastating and depopulating most of Central Catalonia. 878: Wilfred the Hairy, count of Urgell and Cerdanya becomes count of Barcelona, Girona and Osona. 880: Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll founded. 897
This is a list of all present sovereign states in Europe and their predecessors, [1] [2] [3] according to the concept of succession of states. The political borders of Europe are difficult to define. The geographical borders between Europe and Asia are generally agreed to be the Caucasus Mountains, the Ural Mountains, the Bosphorus and the ...