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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Captain General of Catalonia; Castellani people; Catalan Atlas; Catalan constitutions; Catalan Courts; Catalan peseta; Catalan Republic (1640–1641) Catalan Republic (1931) Catalan State (1873) Catalan State (1934) Catalonia and World War II; Catalan declaration of independence; Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia; Cessetani
Isidre Bonsoms i Sicart (1849 – 14 November 1922) was a Catalan bibliophile and cervantist.. He was born in Barcelona. In 1910 he donated to the Biblioteca de Catalunya an important collection of historical-political leaflets regarding events of the history of Catalonia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, most of them printed in Catalonia.
Bernard Desclot (in Catalan: Bernat Desclot) was a Catalan chronicler whose work covering the brief reign of Peter III of Aragon (1276–1285) forms one of the four Catalan Grand Chronicles through which the modern historian views thirteenth- and fourteenth century military and political matters in the Kingdom of Aragon and the Principality of Catalonia, [1] including the "Aragonese Crusade".
Location of Catalonia within Spain and Europe. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Catalonia: . Catalonia – nationality and autonomous community of Spain, located on the northeastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula.
PADICAT acronym for Patrimoni Digital de Catalunya, in Catalan; or Digital Heritage of Catalonia, in English, is the Web Archive of Catalonia. [1]Created in 2005 [2] by the Biblioteca de Catalunya, the public institution responsible for collecting, preserving and distributing the bibliographic heritage, and the digital heritage by extension.