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The economy of Barcelona during this period was increasingly directed towards trade. In 1258 James I of Aragon allowed the merchant guilds of Barcelona to draw ordinances regulating maritime trade in the city's port, [105] and in 1266, he permitted the city to appoint representatives known as consuls to all the major Mediterranean ports of the ...
1450 – University of Barcelona founded. [2] 1473 – Printing press in use. [8] 1474 – Moll de la Santa Creu (wharf) construction begins. [2] 1493 – Columbus' published description of his trans-Atlantic trip becomes a "bestseller" in Barcelona. [9] 1529 – Charles V and Clement VII sign treaty in Barcelona. [10] 1609 – Bank of ...
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]
3.1 Law and order in Barcelona. 4 History of Barcelona. ... Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Spain and Europe Pedro de la Rosa, a native of Barcelona, ...
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
From that point on, the counts of Barcelona often referred to themselves as princeps (prince), in order to show their preeminence over the other Catalan counts. [15] During the 9th and 10th centuries, the counties increasingly became a society of aloers , peasant proprietors of small, family-based farms, who lived by subsistence agriculture and ...
Seville became one of the most populous and cosmopolitan European cities after the expeditions to the New World. [81] Spain enjoyed a cultural golden age in the 16th and 17th centuries. For a time, the Spanish Empire dominated the oceans with its experienced navy and ruled the European battlefield with its well trained infantry, the tercios.
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...