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3 unusual facts about Catalan nationalism


Catalan nationalism

It has its origins in the writings of German Romantics like Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and, most notably, Johann Gottfried Herder.

Cordon sanitaire

In Spain, groups who are perceived as opposed to Catalan or Basque nationalism, such as the People's Party, have been sometimes excluded from any government coalition in Catalonia and the Basque Country.

Douce I, Countess of Provence

According to nationalist historians it was the beginning of l'engrandiment occitànic (the Occitan aggrandisement): a great scheme to unite various lands on both sides of the Pyrenees.


Fathers of the Constitution

represented the centre-right Union of the Democratic Centre; Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the centre-right People's Alliance; Gregorio Peces-Barba, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party; Jordi Solé Tura, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia and Miguel Roca Junyent, of the Democratic Pact for Catalonia, represented the Catalan nationalists.


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