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	Catalonia
		Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, Spanish: Catalu?a, French: Catalogne) is the core region of the area where Catalan is spoken, delimited by the Spanish autonomous region (comunitat aut?noma) of the same name in the north-east of Spain.
		The neighbouring Valencia region (Catalan: Val?ncia), the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Illes Balears), Andorra, and an adjacent area of Aragon (informally referred to as la Franja de Ponent) are closely associated with Catalonia historically and linguistically.
		Catalan Pyrenees: Val d'Aran in the north face, Pica d'Estats 3141 m., Puigmal 2911 m., Cerdanya depression, Perthus pass (near the ancient Roman road).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ca/Catalonia.html (456 words)

	ipedia.com: Catalonia Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, Spanish: Cataluña, French: Catalogne) is a region and Spanish autonomous region (Comunidad autónoma) in the north-east of the Spanish state.
		A Catalan nationalist movement arose in the nineteenth century, and when the Spanish Republic was declared in 1931, Catalonia became an autonomous region.
		One of the keys to Catalan politics is the fact that Barcelona, because it attracts migrants from all over Spain and Latin America, is a majority Spanish-speaking city, particularly in working-class areas, while the rural regions, and the middle and high-class urban areas, remain solidly Catalan-speaking.
	fav.ipedia.com /catalonia.html (1304 words)

	C.A.Z.E.S. - Catalonia
		The Catalan Countries are divided in sections by the Spanish state in three "regions": Principality of Catalonia (four provinces), Valencian Country (three provinces), and the Balearic Islands (one province).
		Outside Spain, Catalan is spoken in the RosellÃ³n (Rousillon) region (France), in Andorra and in the Italian Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
		Catalans have not emigrated much abroad because of the availability of work in the textile, fish and shellfish industries.
	www.cazes.co.uk /cat.htm (766 words)

	Campanya Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Catalan is the native language for about 8 million people in Europe (more than the Swedish or Norwegian), and the clergy of the Catalan Countries has Catalan as a first language (for the Archbishopric of Barcelona see: http://www.arqbcn.org/).
		Catalan was the Lingua Franca for all commerce and politics in the Mediterranean for several centuries, when Catalan monarchies and territories spanned the Iberian Peninsula, the Western-Mediterranean islands, Southern Italy, Sicily, and Southern Greece.
		Famous Catalan-speaking historical characters are the Borja Popes (Borggia in Italian), Father Juniper Serra, Ramon Llull, and modern celebrities such as the cello player Pau Casals, the painter Joan Miro, and the architect Antoni Gaudi.
	home.san.rr.com /casalppcc/campanya_dan_brown.htm (589 words)

	Catalonia - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Catalan is one of the two official languages of Catalonia, as laid down in the Catalan Statute of Autonomy http://www10.gencat.net/gencat/AppJava/cat/generalitat/estatut/index.jsp; the other is Castilian (Spanish), which is the majority language of Spain and official in all of Spain as laid down by the 1978 Spanish Constitution.
		Catalan is regarded by most linguists as being an Ibero-Romance language (the group that includes Spanish), but it has many features of Gallo-Romance languages such as French; it is quite similar to Provençal, which is almost always classified as Gallo-Romance.
		Catalan nationalist and federalist movements arose in the nineteenth century, and when the Second Spanish Republic was declared in 1931 Catalonia became an autonomous region.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=6822 (3285 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Catalan, regarded as the native language of Catalonia, is one of the three official languages of the region as established in the Catalan Statute of Autonomy [2].
		The Catalan government maintains that this policy is necessary in order to protect and promote their language in response to the repression and prohibition of the Franco years and to new residents who fail to learn or use Catalan.
		Catalan is regarded by most linguists as being an Iberian Romance language (the group that includes Spanish), but it has many features of Gallo-Romance languages such as French.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Catalonia (2147 words)

	Spain Languages
		Catalan is another of the Romance languages spoken in Spain, with its earliest literary text, the Homilies d'Organya, dating back to around the middle of the 12th century.
		And it is at this famed Institut where Pompeu Fabra effected the regulation and grammatical systematisation of the Catalan; thus unifying norms for its spelling (1913).
		Catalan is also spoken in some areas of Aragon and Murcia and, outside Spain, in the French Roussillon region, the Principality of Andorra and in the Italian city of Alguer (Sardinia).
	www.donquijote.org /culture/spain/languages/catalan.asp (255 words)

	WAIS Documents
		Catalan is a major Mediterranean language, although silly local pride leads Valencia and the Baleares to assert that their languages are different on the basis of minor peculiarities.
		I studied Catalan language and culture in Barcelona in 1932, when Catalonia, in the first flush of the 1931 Spanish republic, was reasserting its culture.
		The famous Catalan linguist Pompeu Fabre was proud to have me in his class as evidence that the world was paying attention to the Catalan language.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Spain/spain_breakup.html (880 words)

	Spanish Cooking : Catalonia
		Of all the regional cuisines in the Peninsula, Catalan cooking is without doubt the most sophisticated, complete and richest apart from possessing most historical evidence.
		The people of Barcelona have also invented tasty noodles, ie, fideos a la cazuela, one of the most popular dishes of the region.
		Together with the escudella and butifarra with beans, which we mentioned in the introduction, the third most typical Catalan stew is the one with broad beans (habas a la catalana).
	www.gospain.org /cooking/catalan.htm (1557 words)

	Catalonia travel guide - Wikitravel
		Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya) is an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain.
		Famous for its bull fighting festivals in which the bull holds a red cape and bullfighters run after it.
		Catalan (Català), spoken in Catalonia, Balearic Islands, most of Valencia region, a strip in Aragon, Andorra, Alguer-Alghero (little city of Sardinian - Italy) and, Roussillon (an area in the south of France sometimes called Catalunya Nord that corresponds roughly with the department of Pyrénées-Orientales), is spoken by about 7 million people.
	wikitravel.org /en/Catalonia (2091 words)

	Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Autonomous Community of Catalonia (Catalan: Comunitat AutÃ²noma de Catalunya; Spanish: Comunidad AutÃ³noma de CataluÃ±a; Aranese: Comunautat Autonoma de Catalonha), known throughout history simply as Catalonia, is today one of the 17 autonomous communities that constitute the Kingdom of Spain.
		Some Catalan speakers argue that this policy is necessary to protect their language in the face of residents and immigrants who fail to learn or use Catalan.
		Catalan is properly regarded by most linguists as being an Iberian Romance language (the group that includes Spanish), but it has many features of Gallo-Romance languages such as French.
	www.countryiworld.com /wiki-Catalonia (2149 words)

	Catalan Institute of America - New York
		Catalan Institute of America, Inc. is a non-profit organization with more than 500 members, headquartered in the city of New York.
		One of the main objectives of the Catalan Institute of America is to serve as the meeting point for everyone who has an interest in the Catalan language and culture.
		In addition, the Catalan language is spoken in some parts of the Autonomous Community of Aragon, in Spain, the Department of Pyrénées Orientales, in France, and the town of Alghero in Sardinia, Italy.
	www.friendsofcatalonia.com /english/mission.htm (599 words)

	Famous people from the Catalan Countries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He wrote or dictated at various stages a chronicle of his own life, "Llibre Dels Fets" in Catalan, which is the first self-chronicle of a Christian king.
		He sailed the Nordic seas, where people was familiar with the concept of a continent by the west (Vinland), and the contract with the King Ferdinand he says he will be viceroy of "...the lands I found" and not "...the lands I will find".
		He started his voyage from the Catalan city of Pals (which agrees perfectly with the descriptions and illustrations in the XV century chronicles) and not the Andalusian city of Palos (village that never had river port, palaces or city walls).
	home.san.rr.com /casalppcc/famous_people_PPCC.htm (1677 words)

	Famous People - celebrity and historical
		Educated people in Columbus's time agreed that the earth was round; anyone familiar with seafaring certainly knew it, since the roundness of the Earth forms the basis of celestial navigation.
		This same theory suggests he was the illegitimate son of a prominent Catalan sea-faring family, which had served as mercenaries in a sea battle against Castilian forces.
		The casting of Columbus as a figure of "good" or of "evil" often depends on people's perspectives as to whether the arrival of Europeans to the New World and the introduction of Christianity or the Catholic faith is seen as positive or negative.
	www.famouspeople.com /famous_biographies/Christopher_Columbus.htm (6224 words)

	Brussels
		No, they had their own people to follow; the guy waving the yellow banner is the tour guide.
		At last the shadows began to grow long; people at the sidewalk tables were starting to have dinner, and it was time I did likewise.
		Then I walked over and sat on a bench on the little square for an hour or so, watching people hurrying past on their way to work or school or whatever; and finally I shouldered my pack and set off up the hill to the station to catch the train to the airport.
	www.sff.net /people/sanders/brussels.html (1448 words)

	France OK Catalan Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The area therefore is a delightful mix of both French and Spanish which does not fail to infect you with its pride, colours, scenery, cuisine and sense of history.
		A walk around the waterfront will show you the Majorcan castle and the famous lighthouse which is curiously part of the Church - the houses are all painted in delightful colours of blue and pink - this is a town you will not forget.
		Catalan dinner at a local restaurant - talk to the chef and watch a demonstration of the traditional Catalan dance and its haunting music.
	www.france-ok.com /tours/catalan.htm (1237 words)

	Food & Wine Trails Presents ~Catalan Cuisine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the first two days of our Catalan tour we will introduce you to culinary Barcelona, the famous market of "La Boquería" and various other highlights of this incredible Mediterranean city.
		The remainder of your cooking holiday will be spent at Hostal Jordi's, one of the numerous "masias" (traditional rural houses), a comfortably charming small hotel close to the Costa Brava with a unique combination of mountain and coastal scenery.
		A group transfer is included from the Barcelona airport to your charming four-star hotel Condes de Barcelona, which is located in the heart of the city.
	www.foodandwinetrails.com /html/catalan_cuisine.html (766 words)

	jordif
		It is also told that the Catalan landscape with so many mountains, seems to look like the figure of a dragon.
		Catalan knights who had not taken part in the Crusades because they had enough fighting against "Saracans", also started to talk about Saint George as the Croats did in the Eastern lands.
		His image was in many coats of arms like the one of the famous Catalan troops called "Almogavers" who conquered lots of territories on the other side of the Mediterranean sea.
	www.eurotales.eril.net /jordif.htm (380 words)

	Sardana: Catalan Dancing in Barcelona
		Many Catalans consider the region of Catalunya to be distinct from Spain and even though it is within Spain there has been much campaigning for an independent Catalunya for over 150 years.
		His dislike for the Catalans was such that he enforced many crippling laws in an attempt to remove the traditions and language of the Catalan culture and thus make Spain a uniform state.
		The Catalan dancing is complimented by a ‘cobla’ a small group of musicians accompanying the dance with a selection of brass instruments and lead by the ‘flaviol’ a type of flute whilst the tambourine sets the rhythm.
	barcelona-tourist-guide.com /specialist/catalan-dancing-sardana.html (647 words)

	Catalonia information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Catalan civil law provides for an ombudsman (Síndic de Greuges) [4] to address problems that may arise between private citizens or organizations and the Generalitat or local governments.
		Catalan is one of the two official languages of Catalonia, as established in the Catalan Statute of Autonomy [13]: the other is Spanish (Castilian), which is the language throughout Spain (its official status confirmed by the 1978 Spanish Constitution).
		The linguistic similarity of Spanish and Catalan eases bilingualism, but it should be noted that the two are not dialects of a single language.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Catalonia (1993 words)

	Religion of Joan Miro, famous painter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In one of his most revealing letters, Joan Miro expressed a sentiment that would form the emotional nucleus of his art for the next seven decades: deep attachment to the land, people, and traditions of his native Catalonia.
		Contrasting the volatility of modern urban life with an ideal pastoral existence in the Catalan countryside, Miro advanced his archetypal vision of a primitive Catalonia unaltered by time, industrialization, and political transformations.
		Miro's retreat to Ciurana signaled a return to mythic Catalonia, in which the symbiosis of the peasant with the land evoked images of stability, continuity, and cyclical renewal.
	www.adherents.com:443 /people/pm/Joan_Miro.html (312 words)

	Statement of Purpose
		In Spain, as the Republic was proclaimed in 1931 and a government for the people was being established, a counter movement arose, headed by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who would become the totalitarian dictator.
		The International Brigades, mostly consisting of people from Britain, France, the United States, and even from Germany and Italy, were a formidable force, even though the majority of its soldiers were young and untrained in the ways of war.
		Most people were nice, most people were with the good cause… but I met people in this village from Spain, who were at peace with the war, who still feel good about the war…a lot of people think it was the best experience of their lives, because the war was a good war.
	www.uwm.edu /People/lazarsk2/oralhistory/project/gaster.htm (6039 words)

	Arts People Image Galleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Famous Couples - Pictures and profiles of famous couples from the arts, sciences, politics, and entertainment.
		Hollywood Behind Bars - Photographs of famous people taken by the police at the moment of arrest and booking process.
		Silent Ladies and Gents - Large photograph gallery of the famous actors and actresses from the silent film era.
	www.pacosdrivers.com /odp/scat.asp?ID=Arts/People/Image_Galleries (483 words)

	Catalonia, Politics and Supply Chain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Pope Boniface hated Catalans, he had done everything possible to stop their expansion in the Mediterranean and he also denied the rights of the House of Barcelona to the Crown of Sicily.
		As you well know, I am a proponent of trilingual education where Catalan and Spanish are used to teach most of the subjects (in a 50/50 approach) and English is introduced pretty early with the objective that kids leave highschool mastering Catalan and Spanish and being very fluent in English.
		This is an area where the Catalan government could have made a difference, since it has full responsibility in the area of education, but it has not.
	ianllorens.blogspot.com (2591 words)

	Catalan (Brain Tags)
		Over here, there are two languages spoken: Spanish, which is the official language, and Catalan, which the people living here all speak in daily life.
		Furthermore, Spanish is a language spoken all over the world, at least more than Catalan, and all people here speak Spanish besides Catalan.
		The only drawback of my decision is that I have to learn to understand Catalan anyway, since this is what all people speak over here, but that has happened just by listening to the people and living with them.
	braintags.com /archives/2003/03/catalan (418 words)

	Macalester Today
		You have to be aware that other people might not see the world the way you do.
		Lately I've been teaching a lot on what I call the "discourse of monstrosity," which is how people use a rhetoric or discourse to either change society or have an image of a monster that you need to fight.
		That has been my focus the past couple of years--mostly how oppressed people and the power structures in a society use the image of a monster to fight enemies or overcome obstacles and to move their ideals forward.
	www.macalester.edu /mactoday/120105/don_quixote.html (980 words)

	Jose Mourinho - Jose Mourinho Biography, Football Manager, History, Profile.
		Son of Portuguese goalkeeper Félix Mourinho, José Mourinho never pursued a career as a player (although he did have minor stints in smaller clubs) but showed an impressive managing ability from an early age, by preparing match reports for his father.
		Nicknamed Tradutor (translator), as he worked with Bobby Robson as a translator (technically speaking he was interpreter) in FC Porto, and followed him to FC Barcelona where he even learned Catalan.
		In 2000 his chance of coaching a team finally arrived, when he was picked by Lisbon side Benfica to replace Jupp Heynckes after the fourth week of the Portuguese league.
	www.famouspeople.co.uk /j/josemourinho.html (608 words)

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