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In 2007, a poll indicated that, when asked about the relationship between Catalonia and Spain, 59.5% of respondents thought that Catalonia should be an autonomous community within Spain (the current situation), 17.5% considered that Catalonia should be a state within a federal state and only 13.5% believed that Catalonia should be an ...
With Spain devastated and cut off from international trade and the autarkic politics of the regime, Catalonia, as an industrial center, suffered severely; the economic recovery was slow. Between 1959 and 1974 Spain experienced the second-fastest economic expansion in the world known as the Spanish Miracle , and Catalonia prospered as Spain's ...
The drafted Statute included 52 articles and a preambule. One of the main points is the definition of Catalonia as an autonomous state within the Spanish Republic; in addition, the preambule also offered the possibility of a future self-determination for the Catalan people. The draft established Catalan as the official language of Catalonia.
Parts of inland Catalonia were in Carlist hands, while Liberals retained the coastal areas. November: Minister Javier de Burgos decrees the territorial division of Spain into provinces. Catalonia was divided into four provinces (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona). 1835: First Barcelona bullanga (popular revolt or riot). 1840: 6 July
This new situation caused many Catalans to look to England and, especially, the Netherlands as political and economic models for Catalonia. [58] At the dawn of the War of the Spanish Succession, the Bourbon Duke of Anjou claimed the throne of Spain as Philip V, and the Principality initially supported his claim.
Polling closed in the election in Spain's wealthy northeastern region of Catalonia on Sunday, when more than 5.7 million voters were eligible to vote in a contest that will have reverberations ...
Homage to Catalonia is a 1938 memoir by English writer ... In his second appendix to the book, Orwell discusses the political issues at stake in the May 1937 ...
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