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Catalonia has a marked geographical diversity, considering the relatively small size of its territory. The geography is conditioned by the Mediterranean coast, with 580 kilometres (360 miles) of coastline, and the towering Pyrenees along the long northern border. Catalonia is divided into three main geomorphological units: [91]
The Catalan Countries (Catalan: Països Catalans, Eastern Catalan: [pəˈizus kətəˈlans]) are those territories where the Catalan language is spoken. [1] [2] They include the Spanish regions of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencian Community, and parts of Aragon and Murcia (), [3] as well as the Principality of Andorra, the department of Pyrénées-Orientales (aka Northern Catalonia ...
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.
Typical landscape of Costa Brava that gives its name, "rugged coast" (coastline between Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Tossa de Mar) Landscape from Cape Creus in Cadaqués. The Costa Brava (Catalan: [ˈkɔstə ˈβɾaβə]; [a] Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈβɾaβa]; [a] "Wild Coast" or "Rough Coast") is a coastal region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain.
Diachronic map of the Crown of Aragon. The Principality of Catalonia appears in light green Roger de Flor and the Catalan Company in Constantinople. The Principality of Catalonia saw a prosperous period during the 13th century and the first half of the 14th.
Montage of 8 pages (the third to sixth leaves) of the original 1375 Catalan Atlas Detail of the Catalan Atlas, the first compass rose depicted on a map. The Catalan Atlas (Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s (often conventionally dated 1375), [1] [2] that has been ...
Nicola Prentis moved from Madrid to Catalonia 8 years ago with her then-partner and young son. When she struggles to speak Catalan, she finds locals prefer switching to English than Spanish.
Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia [a] or French Catalonia is the formerly Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange of France's effective renunciation on the formal protection that it had given to the recently founded Catalan Republic.