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	Catalonia
		Catalonia is an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) and historic region of Spain encompassing the northeastern Spanish provincias of Gerona, Barcelona, Tarragona, and Lérida.
		The autonomous community of Catalonia occupies a triangular area in the northeastern corner of Spain and is bordered by France and Andorra in the north, Aragon in the west, Valencia in the south, and the Mediterranean Sea in the east.
		The Pyrenees separate Catalonia from France, and to the west the pre-Pyrenees and the Ebro River basin mark the border with Aragon.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/C/Catalonia.html (1029 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Principality of Catalonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Map of Baixa Cerdanya in Catalonia Cerdanya (French Cerdagne) is one of the historical Catalan counties in the eastern Pyrenees, bordering the county of Alt Urgell.
		Catalonia was officially recognised as a nationality in the Catalan Statute of Autonomy enacted in 1979 pursuant to the Spanish Constitution of 1978.
		The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia borders on Land of Valencia to the south, Aragon to the west, France and Andorra to the north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east and southeast.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Principality-of-Catalonia (5075 words)

	Catalonia (autonomous community) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya; Spanish: Cataluña; Aranese: Catalonha), known formally as the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, is one of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain.
		Present-day Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, held in Barcelona.
		The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia borders on Land of Valencia to the south, Aragon to the west, France and Andorra to the north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east and southeast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catalonia (1766 words)

	General info about Catalonia in Spain
		The shape of an inverted triangle, Catalonia is bounded on the north by the Pyrenees Mountains, on the west by the region of Aragón, and on the east by the Mediterranean Sea.
		Corn, wheat, rye, flax, and licorice are cultivated; pigs, goats, and sheep are raised; and almonds, chestnuts, walnuts, figs, oranges, and grapes are grown in Catalonia.
		Towards the end of the 15C, Catalonia and Aragon joined up with the kingdom of Castile and, at the beginning of the 18C, were absorbed under the Spain of the bourbons, thus losing their independence.
	www.hiddentrails.com /europe/spain/general-catalonia.htm (920 words)

	Catalonia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, Spanish: Cataluña, Aranese: Catalonha, French: Catalogne) is an Autonomous Community of Spain, in the north-east corner of the country.
		The Generalitat is the institution of self-government in Catalonia.
		The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia borders on Valencia to the south, Aragon to the west, France and Andorra to the north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east and southeast.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Catalonia (3307 words)

	Statute of Autonomy. Generalitat of Catalonia
		The ceded revenue from personal income tax corresponding to taxable persons whose normal residence is in Catalonia is considered to be produced in the territory of the autonomous community of Catalonia.
		The attribution to the autonomous community of Catalonia shall be determined by the corresponding indices in each case.
		The attribution to the autonomous community of Catalonia shall be determined by consumption in its territory.
	www.gencat.net /generalitat/eng/estatut/disposicions.htm (1326 words)

	Catalonia accommodation pages
		Catalonia was officially recognised as a nationality in the Catalan Statute of Autonomy enacted in 1979 pursuant to the Spanish Constitution of 1978.
		Catalonia is the original heartland of Catalan, and remains the most important and largest territory where the language is spoken.
		Catalonia has regulated its institutions and their various competences within the framework provided by the Spanish constitution in the "Sau Statute." The similarity of Spanish and Catalan eases bilingualism, but they are certainly not dialects of a single language.
	www.direct-hotels-online.com /Spain/Catalonia/Catalonia.html (339 words)

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		The former Kingdom of Valencia: the Autonomous Community of Valencia (from the Valencian official name:Comunitat Valenciana).
		For example, in the north-western region of Catalonia known as Val d'Aran, a dialect of Occitan, Aranese, is spoken and considered the native language, although Spanish and Catalan are also spoken.
		The idea of an Autonomous Community was just one more possible scenario in territories like the Land of Valencia and so its later evolution was under much political scrutiny and debate.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Catalan_countries (1000 words)

	Memoire Online - Langage & Politique en Catalogne : La définition d'une politique scolaire sur un marché linguistique ...
		Contrary, the case of Catalonia (autonomous politically since 1979) is an illustration of a democratic and peaceful concretization of a nationalist movement drawing its intellectual and ideological roots in the romantic revival of the Catalan literature of the XIXéme century.
		According to the investigation of 1979, 74% of the inhabitants of the Autonomous Community are thus acquired with the teaching of the Castilian and the Catalan.
		The autonomisation of this sector or field is characterized by the emergence of differentiated administrative structures, by the existence and the reproduction of a body of professionals having a particular statute; finally, by the determination of a specific program intended to achieve beforehand planned goals.
	memoireonline.free.fr /12/05/22/language-politique-catalogne_en.html (15328 words)

	Meractor Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Principality of Catalonia is divided by the international boundary between France and Spain, which splits it into two parts, the Autonomous Community of Catalonia (Comunitat Autònoma de Catalunya) and North Catalonia (Catalunya Nord).
		In the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, the four radio stations which form part of CCRTV- Catalunya Ràdio, Catalunya Música, Catalunya Informació and Ràdio Associació de Catalunya*- broadcast entirely in Catalan, as does Radio 4, which is part of the public body Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE).
		In the autonomous Community of València, Catalan is the main language of the public radio station, Canal Nou*, and is used to a limited extent on other public and private stations.
	www.aber.ac.uk /~merwww/english/lang/catalan.htm (707 words)

	Catalonia - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya; Spanish: Cataluña; Aranese: Catalonha) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain.
		During the 19th and 20th centuries, Catalonia was one of the main centres of Spanish industrialisation.
		Unlike the autonomous communities of Navarre and the Basque Country, Catalonia lacks its own tax system; thus the economic financing of the regional administration depends almost entirely on funds raised by national-government taxation and budgeted to Catalonia.
	catalonia.quickseek.com (2586 words)

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		BASIC DATA Size (including metropolitan and city areas, commune or borough) Barcelona is located by the Mediterranean sea, in the Eastern part of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, in the north-east of Spain.
		The division of Catalonia in ‘comarques’ was firstly done in 1936, during the times of the Republican Autonomous Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya), and decades later it was reinstated, in a slightly revised form, with the end of Franco’s dictatorship.
		Relative significance of city in region and country The city of Barcelona is the second larger city of Spain and is capital of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia (its area is 31,894.2 Km2, and their inhabitants were 6,059,494 in 1991).
	www.unesco.org /most/p97barc.doc (7851 words)

	Minority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For example, a film subtitled in Catalan in Barcelona and transmitted by the Catalan autonomous community’s channels cannot be transmitted by the channels of the Valencian autonomous community, even though many Valencians would consider it to be subtitled in their own language.
		The channel broadcasts 24 hours a day, and transmissions are received beyond the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, in the Principality of Andorra, the Autonomous Community of Valencia, part of the Catalan-speaking region in France, and the Balearic Islands – regions which, between them, have a total population of 13.5 million.
		TVC is obliged to conform with the language policy of the Catalan autonomous government and use standard Catalan, particularly on the more formal programmes, and it is the responsibility of the Commission for Linguistic Normalisation to see that this is the case.
	www.aber.ac.uk /mercator/Papers/Bilbao.htm (3499 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Catalonia covers an area of 31,950 km² with an official population of 6.3 million, and its capital is Barcelona.
		Thousands of Muslims immigrated to Catalonia, in the north-east corner of Spain, and many of them are now running their own lucrative business, according to IOL Correspondent.
		The wife of Jordi Pujol, the former president of the autonomous government, said she feared that one day churches in Catalonia would be turned into mosques.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2005-07/09/article02.shtml (383 words)

	Chapter 13: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
		These autonomous regions may undertake competence in education policy or the central Ministry for Education may be seized of this power.
		Because it is the creation of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia it has a particular focus on the Catalán language and cultural sensitivities.
		The university is presently financed by subventions from the government of the autonomous community.
	www.fernuni-hagen.de /ZIFF/v1-ch13.htm (1267 words)

	Catalunya - Wikimedia Commons
		Heute ist es in verschiedene administrative Teile untergliedert: In Spanien ist es die autonome Region Catalunya, dazu gehören auch Teile von Aragon sowie in Südfrankreich Teile des Departments der östlichen Pyrenäen.
		en: Catalonia is a historic territory in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula.
		Nowadays it is divided into different administrative jurisdictions: In Spain, the Autonomous Community of Catalonia (also known as Southern Catalonia or just Catalonia) and a small part of the Autonomous Community of Aragon (the Franja de Ponent or Western strip).
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Catalonia (347 words)

	Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Catalan nationalist and federalist movements arose in the nineteenth century, and when the Second Republic was declared in Francisco Franco annulled Catalonia's autonomy statute and prohibited any public usage, official promotion or recognition of the Catalan language (although its private everday use was never proscribed).
		Unlike the autonomous communities of Catalan Statute of Autonomy is currently the subject of intense political debate at regional and national level.
		emissions in Catalonia have increased by 40% since 1992 and 60% of the region's electricity comes from aging nuclear power stations (a figure exceeded in Europe only by France and [20] in a heavily-populated valley are just two cases in point.
	www.countryiworld.com /wiki-Catalonia (2104 words)

	cataluña
		Catalonia is located in the northeastern region of Spain, west of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Between 470 BC and the 1800s, Catalonia was invaded and conquered several times by different kingdoms and foreign countries, most notably: France, Spain and the kingdom of Aragon.
		However, Catalonia's autonomy was abolished 5 short years later, ending when Francisco Franco was victorious in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and took control of Spain.
	www.spanport.ucsb.edu /faculty/mcgovern/cataluna.html (500 words)

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		Province of Toledo, Autonomous Community of Castile-La Mancha
		Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of the Christian kingdoms fighting the Moors and, in the 16th century, the temporary seat of supreme power under Charles V, Toledo is the repository of more than 2,000 years of history.
		Province of Cuenca, Autonomous Community of Castile-La Mancha
	www.spain-inn.com /world-heritage1.html (1060 words)

	Maps of Cataluña, catalonia map barcelona for planning your holiday in Cataluña, catalonia, ...
		Maps of Cataluña, catalonia map barcelona for planning your holiday in Cataluña, catalonia, Cataluña, catalonia community
		Catalonia's capital, located at the Mediterranean Sea, offers the structures of a true metropole.
		Tarragona is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia.
	www.in-spain.net /provinces/catalonia-maps.htm (112 words)

	Send to a Friend - IPS Inter Press Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pascual Maragall, candidate for the presidency of the northwestern autonomous community of Catalonia and local president of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), on Wednesday presented the bases to the Catalonian parliament for a new Autonomy Statute to be negotiated with the central government.
		Maragall, former mayor of the province’s capital, Barcelona, is demanding “recognition of Catalonia as a nation,” a considerable increase in its autonomy and progress towards making Spain into a federal state.
		The national government maintains in all communities its police force and civil guard, a militarised force under the ministries of Interior and Defence, as well as the national armed forces.
	www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=17137 (793 words)

	WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2005-0010
		The Complainant is the Government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia (Catalunya).
		The Autonomous Community of Catalonia forms part of the Territorial Organization of the Spanish State in accordance with article 137 of the Spanish Constitution, and is recognised and governed by the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, approved by the Spanish Organic Law 4/1979 of 18 December.
		The Government of Autonomous Community of Catalunya, by using the name GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA, is engaged in large advertising campaigns in the media, including newspapers, television and magazines in order to promote its services to the citizens.
	arbiter.wipo.int /domains/decisions/html/2005/d2005-0010.html (2243 words)

	Idioma Valencià - CATALANIST IMPERIALISM
		The current Autonomous Valencian Community (what for centuries was the independent "Kingdom of Valencia") is one of the 17 autonomous communities that integrate the Spanish State (or "Crown of Spain", a constitutional monarchy into the democratic system of Spain).
		The Autonomous Community of Catalonia is one of the communities where there are a significant presence of nationalistic separatist movements (Catalan nationalism).
		The imperialistic catalan nationalism wants the political and social absorption of the Autonomous Valencian Community inside of the Community of Catalonia to give bigger political, social and territorial force to the independence ambitions of the Catalan nationalism.
	perso.wanadoo.es /idiomavalencia/iimperial.htm (504 words)

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