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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 ]
Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war. [ 144 ] The result was a large-scale immigration from poorer regions of Spain (particularly Andalucia , Murcia and Galicia ), [ 145 ] which in turn led to rapid urbanisation ...
1831 - Bonaplata Factory, El Vapor founded; 1833 – City becomes capital of newly created Province of Barcelona. [2] 1834 – Sociedad Económica Barcelonesa de Amigos del País established. [12] 1842 – Bombardment of Barcelona (1842). [4] 1847 Gran Teatre del Liceu opens. Barcelona City Hall expanded. [1] 1848 Mataró-Barcelona railway ...
Barcelona: 50,000 60,000 – 70,000 ... City Country 1675 1700 1750 1775 1800 1825 1850 1862 1875 1900 ... Largest cities in Europe;
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
Since then, these last three counties were always ruled by the same person, becoming the political core of the future Principality of Catalonia. Upon his death in 897 Wilfred made their titles hereditaries and thus founded the dynasty of the House of Barcelona, which ruled Catalonia until the death of Martin I, its last ruling member, in 1410 ...
Ethnology of the Iberian Peninsula c. 200 BC. The earliest record of Homo genus representatives living in Western Europe has been found in the Spanish cave of Atapuerca; a flint tool found there dates from 1.4 million years ago, and early human fossils date to roughly 1.2 million years ago. [1]
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 ...