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The Medieval precedent of the Generalitat, the Diputació del General de Catalunya ("Deputation of the General of Catalonia") was a permanent council of deputies established by the Courts in order to collect the new "tax of the General" (or tribute for the King) in 1359. The "general" refers to the combination of the three estates: nobility ...
Proclamation of the Catalan Republic in Plaça de Sant Jaume by Francesc Macià, Barcelona, 14 April 1931. On 12 April 1931, local elections gave a large and unexpected majority in Catalonia (including Barcelona) to the Republican Left of Catalonia (Catalan: Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC), a party that had been founded three weeks earlier by the union of Macià's pro-independence ...
The procedure to set up this list is the following: for the period of the medieval Generalitat (Deputation of the General), [6] the president was the most eminent ecclesiastic deputy of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia (popularly known as Generalitat), [7] a body of the Catalan Courts dissolved in 1716 and reinstated for two years in ...
The military forces of the Generalitat, weakly structured between December 1936 and May 1937 in the People's Army of Catalonia (Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya), were concentrated on two fronts: Aragon and Majorca. The latter was an utter disaster.
The president of the Government of Catalonia (Catalan: President de la Generalitat de Catalunya, IPA: [pɾəziˈðen də lə ʒənəɾəliˈtad də kətəˈluɲə]) is head of government of Catalonia, leading the executive branch of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Catalan government.
The Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya Palace of the Generalitat on the National Day of Catalonia. The Palace of the Generalitat of Catalonia (Catalan: Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, IPA: [pəˈlaw ðə lə ʒənəɾəliˈtad də kətəˈluɲə]; Spanish: Palacio de la Generalidad de Cataluña) is a historic palace in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
The Generalitat creates the Council of the Principality. 1461: 21 June: Capitulation of Vilafranca between John II and the Generalitat. 1462: Outbreak of the Catalan Civil War. Outbreak of the First War of the Remences. 1472: 24 October: Capitulation of Pedralbes, end of the Civil War with negotiated victory of the royal side. 1481
At 8 p.m., Companys appeared on a balcony of the Palau de la Generalitat to proclaim the "Catalan State within the Spanish Federal Republic," told the crowd that "monarchists and fascists" had "assaulted the government", [15] and went on: