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The Catalan independence movement ( Catalan: independentisme català; [a] Spanish: independentismo catalán; Occitan: independentisme catalan) is a social and political movement (with roots in Catalan nationalism) which seeks the independence of Catalonia from Spain . The beginnings of separatism in Catalonia can be traced back to regionalist ...
History of Catalonia. The lands of what today is known as Catalonia, in Spain, were first settled during the Middle Palaeolithic era. Like the rest of the Mediterranean side of the Iberian Peninsula, the area was occupied by the Iberians and several Greek colonies were established on the coast before the Roman conquest.
The Catalan Wikipedia is the Catalan-language edition of the Wikipedia free online encyclopedia. It was created on March 16, 2001, just a few minutes after the first non-English Wikipedia, the German edition. With more than 745,000 articles, it is currently the 20th-largest Wikipedia as measured by the number of articles, and the fifth-largest Wikipedia in a Romance language. In April 2016 ...
The main dialects of Catalan [1] [2] [3] The Catalan dialects feature a relative uniformity, especially when compared to other Romance languages; [4] both in terms of vocabulary, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology. [5] Mutual intelligibility between its dialects is very high, [6] [7] [8] estimates ranging from 90% to 95%. [9]
Where Catalan is spoken. The Catalan language is a Romance language spoken in Catalonia, Valencian Community, the eastern part of Aragon, the Balearic Islands, a small zone of Murcia (all of them in Spain ), Andorra, North Catalonia (in France) and the Italian city of L'Alguer. Together, those places are often called the Catalan Countries.
The Catalan Wikipedia (Catalan: Viquipèdia) is the Catalan-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in March 2001, and is the fourth-oldest edition of Wikipedia. It is the 17th largest edition by article count. As of May 2013, it had over 400,000 articles.
Mathematical concepts named after mathematician Eugène Catalan: Catalan numbers, a sequence of natural numbers that occur in various counting problems. Catalan solids, a family of polyhedra. Catalan's constant, a number that occurs in estimates in combinatorics. Catalan's conjecture.
