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The Catalan independence movement ... to demand independence. [44] In 1982, ... 2011, was shown to map the electoral results of the Catalan regional election of 21 ...
Estelada, flag used by Estat Català and the most representative symbol of Catalan independence movement from the 1920s onwards. The Catalan workers movement at the turn of the twentieth century consisted of three tendencies: syndicalism, socialism, and anarchism, part of the last openly embracing "propaganda of the deed" as advocated by ...
There are independence movements pleading for secession from Spain in Catalonia, the Basque Country and Navarre, Galicia and the Canary Islands. The Basque Statute of Autonomy and the fourth transitory provision of the 1978 Spanish Constitution [ es ] provide a pathway for the integration of Navarre in the Basque autonomous community.
Spain's Catalonia region holds an election on Sunday with big implications for the Socialist-led national government and a pro-independence movement rumbling for a decade. WHEN DID THE ...
The movement for independence has been heating up since. ... voters in the Spanish region of Catalonia have given a clear majority of votes to parties seeking referendum on independence from Spain ...
Revolutionary Catalonia [1] (21 July 1936 – 8 May 1937) was the period in which the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeast Spain was controlled or largely influenced by various anarchist, syndicalist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era.
The first reference to Catalonia and the Catalans appeared in the Liber maiolichinus de gestis Pisanorum illustribus, a Pisan chronicle of the conquest of Majorca by a joint force of Italians, Catalans, and Occitans. 1118: Archdiocese of Tarragona reestablished, the Catalan Church gained independence from the Archdiocese of Narbonne, in France ...
Catalonia, especially Barcelona, was the first part of Spain to industrialize. This early industrialization and the new economic problems associated with it led to even more of a break with the central government and culture. [66] Catalan industrialists often lobbied for trade protection and opposed trade treaties with other countries. [67] [68]