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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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a collection of articles about the history of Catalonia and its people.
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]
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.
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 ...
Iberian Kingdoms in 1400. The Principality of Catalonia was a state [1] [2] of the composite monarchy known as Crown of Aragon.The Principality was the result of the absortion or vassalization by the County of Barcelona of the other Catalan counties (such as the counties of Girona, Osona, Urgell or Rousillon), while the Crown was created by the dynastic union of the County of Barcelona and the ...
Pere Ardiaca i Martí (1909 in Balaguer, Lleida Province – 5 November 1986 in Moscow) was a Spanish Catalan communist politician. In 1982, he, Marià Pere, Josep Serradell and dozens of other communist leaders founded the Party of the Communists of Catalonia (PCC).