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Topic: Asturleonese


In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

  
  Chapter 4: Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages
The noble estate was internally stratified into a higher class of magnates (maiores) and a lower one (minores) -- the viri nobiles of tenth-century Catalonia, the infanzones of Castile and León.
This lower class was distinguished by its lack of wealth and by its close vassalatic dependency, on the counts in Catalonia, the king in the Asturleonese and successor kingdoms.
In Catalonia of the tenth century, a noble of this class was typically chatelain of one castle; in León, his patrimony was based on personal presuras of his family, and Sánchez-Albornoz has demonstrated the modest dimensions of such [162] holdings.
libro.uca.edu /ics/ics4.htm   (11864 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Spain and Portugal
This Christian lands were varied and lacked a common power structure.
Due to this separation, the vulgar Latin spoken in the different Christian lands evolved in different ways, giving birth to the romance languages of GalaicoPortuguese, AsturLeonese, Castilian, NavarroAragonese and Catalan.
From GalaicoPortuguese comes the Portuguese language of the kingdom of Portugal, Castilian became dominat as 'Spanish', and Catalan was the dominant language in the Crown of Aragon.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=115818   (2494 words)

  
 Asturian-American Migration Forum :: View topic - Astur-leonese & the people of Leon--& los lleoneses
Having said I would not (in principle) be for a hypothetical political union of both territories, although north leon could well be asturies (babia, oseya, l.laciana..
) the rest is a whole different thing altoghether, the asturleonese language has not been present in the leonese flatlands for decades if not centuries, the sense of humour and the genius loci of the country is simply different.
Having said that I could persuaded and I am kind of open on the issue,,
www.asturianus.org /forum/viewtopic.php?p=5409&sid=761c075b02f8e2b72e5f4d107373d263   (2676 words)

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