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After the Arabian invasion 711 and the conquest by the francs at 800 Catalonia as a free country arose and lay between the arabs at the Iberian peninsula and the Franconian empire in the north
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The counts of the capital Barcelona made themselves independent at the end of the 9th century: Guifrè el Pelós (Wilfried the hairy) united several Catalan counties, which were managed from Barcelona and founded the cloister Ripoll, the cradle of Catalonia, was based between 875 and 895
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In the 12th century Ramòn Berenguer and Petronila of Aragòn married what led to the union of the counties Catalonia and Aragon. An economic blossom of the Catalans developed which had a far effect to the countries of the Mediterranean.
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An economic decline of Catalonia started around the time as Columbus America, discovered . Kastilien became the economic center. Among others Catalonia was incorporated into by 1701 to 1714 in the Spanish war of succession. The Catalan culture and language were forbidden.
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1778 Catalonia was allowed to trade with America, this led to an enormous economic upswing once more and Catalan nationalism celebrated happy new times with that
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At the beginning of the 20th century this was also accompanied by artistic independence. The famous buildings of the Modernisme were made
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First convention for the standardization of the Catalan language, Catalonia gets his political responsibilities back in 1906
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1932 after the fall of the monarchy Catalonia attains back his autonomy
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1936 Spanish civil war after revolt (Franco era started), Catalonia was on the republican side
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This one lost the republicans in 1939 and forbade Franco Catalan language and culture
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Political groupings formed against the head office in Madrid in 1969
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After Franco's death in 1975 Catalonia won a limited self-administration back in 1978
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1980 first free elections of the Catalan parliament
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