catalonia

What if in the uniting of the crowns Castille and Aragon, the rulers decided to adopt Catalan as the main language? After all Catalan was very prestigious in the Middle Ages, more so than Castilian Spanish. Could Catalan successfully spread and supplant Castilian Spanish? Would most of Spain be...

2017 , The now famous Catalan Independence referendum is held , it controversially passes , the Catalan Government declares independence, Spain sends in it's martial forces and the Catalan Government flees to Brussels. Till this point, it's the same as in our timeline. What if , Spain's...

During the 30 Years War, a revolt broke out in northeastern spain, declaring the principality of catalonia under France's louis xiv. However, Spain eventually crushed this revolt. But I'm curious, what if Spain failed to do so, and France was able to secure the region? Would catalonia be...

In the course of writing an answer at Quora explaining why Catalonia is more bilingual in Catalan and Spanish than Québec is in French and English, I made the point that despite superficial similarities Québec and Catalonia have very different language demographics. Each has a population of...

The Commonwealth of Catalonia, printed in Antwerp in 1608 by Jan Baptist Vrients 1. The birth of a nation. When King Juan II of Aragon died in his bed on the night of April 27, 1467, the war against the Catalan rebels took a turn for the worse. Fernando, his 10-years heir, was to be crowned...

1. Reunification The political and economical stagnation that the Francoist Spain was enduring since the 1960s, specially from 1965 onwards, led to an increase of the "Free World" democracies upon the totalitarian regime. In 1972, Robert Nixon send his Secretary of State, William P. Rodgers, to...

What if Catalonia didn't declare independence in 1936? How would they have compensated (old school) land-owners? Would they still have been excommunicated by the Vatican? Would they have recovered quicker from the Great Depression? Which side would they support during the Great Patriotic War?

Even after covert support by France to the Republicans ended in December 1936, the possibility of French intervention against the Nationalists remained a serious possibility throughout the Spanish Civil War. German intelligence reported to Franco and the Nationalists that the French military was...

If everything went right for Aragon, how large of a territorial extent could it achieve?