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Catalonia   /kˌætəlˈoʊnjə/   Listen
Catalonia

noun
1.
A region of northeastern Spain.





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"Catalonia" Quotes from Famous Books



... scaffolding which underlay the pomp and heraldry of the great sea kingdom of the Aragonese. To this day you can find on old buildings the arms of the kings of Aragon and the counts of Barcelona in Mallorca and Manorca and Ibiza and Sardinia and Sicily and Naples. It follows that when Catalonia begins to reemerge as a nucleus of national consciousness after nearly four centuries of subjection to Castile, poets speaking Catalan, writing Catalan, shall be poets of the mountains and of ...
— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos
... M. de Noailles took Palamos, Girone, and the fortress of Castel-Follit in Catalonia. This last was taken by the daring of a soldier, who led on a small number of his comrades, and carried the place by assault. Nothing was done in Italy; and in Flanders M. de Luxembourg came to no engagement with the Prince ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... Catalonia, republican, fiery, democratic, and independent; on the other, Navarre, more priest-ridden than Rome herself, with every man a Carlist and every woman that which her confessor told her to be. In the ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman


Words linked to "Catalonia" :   territorial dominion, Catalan, dominion, territory, Espana, Kingdom of Spain, Spain, district


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