Catalonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Catalonia (Catalan: ; Spanish: ; Aranese; Catalonha ) is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain. The capital city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an official popula...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia
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Catalan spoken here Flag ... Origin of the Aragonese-Catalan Flag ... The official Catalan flag is 2:3. Unofficial and independentist flags are normally 2:3, but of course no regulation exists.
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www.crwflags.com/FOTW/flags/es%7Dct.html
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José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Falange [Spanish para-fascist party] 1934: "The Catalan flag should be used as that of Spain, because it is the oldest and most glorious and poetic one of the [Iberian] peninsula."
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Catalonia's Flags geographic.org; Catalonian flag; Catalan Flag ... This flag of Catalonia is intended for representational purposes and no claim to technical accuracy is made. Click on the link above to read the terms for use of this Catalan flag on your web page.
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www.geographic.org/flags/new3/catalonia_flags.html
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Labrador's Flags geographic.org; Labradorian flag; Newfoundland Flag ... This flag of Labrador is intended for representational purposes and no claim to technical accuracy is made. Click on the link above to read the terms for use of this Catalan flag on your web page.
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www.geographic.org/flags/new3/labrador_flags.html
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At first, the bars of the coat of arms were either represented on the flag in a vertical or horizontal position. In the end, the horizontal position prevailed, becoming the official flag of the Catalan nation: four red bars alternating with five yellow ones, all of the same width.
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The flag of Catalonia was "exported" to Aragon 1111. The original Aragonese flag seems to be the same as England's. The Catalan flag was in use in Aragon until 1709. Later it was readopted 1936 but supressed in few weeks by the Francoists.
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www.1uptravel.com/flag/flags/es-ct_ar.html
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Since James II possessed the kingdom as fief of Peter II, the flag used was the same in both kingdoms. The return to the three pales would explain the appearance of documents of this type later than 1241 when James I adopted the five pales ... The reincorporation of Sicily to the Catalan crown took place in 1377.
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www.angelfire.com/realm/jolle/catalonia/cat_4a.htm
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The Catalan Flag, The Senyera, is thought to be one of the oldest flags of the world. It probably derives from 11th century or 12th century pre-heraldic symbols. In Catalan, senyera is also a synonym of bandera ('flag'), although normally people use the word to refer to the Catalan flag in particular.
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www.spain-flag.eu/region-flags-spain/catalonia.htm
www.spain-flag.eu/region-flags-spain/catalonia.htm
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