The Seaport metropolitan area Barcelona is municipal in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea. Located in the comarca of Barcelonès, along the Mediterranean seashore betwixt the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, Barcelona is the greatest port, the second large city, and chief commercial & business enterprise hub of Spain. Barcelona is assets of Catalonia sovereign part.
The history of Barcelona began more than 2,500 eld ago when Phoenicians and Carthaginians effected on the commercialised port. Barcelona is believed to be founded by the Carthaginians in a circle 230 BC. The name of Carthaginian supreme ruler Amilcar Barca is oft referred to as the basis of the mark Barcino.
The Carthaginians were replaced by the Romans in the 1st century B.C. After the autumn of Roman empire, the Visigoths invaded the urban center in the archaeozoic 5th period of time and renamed the urban as "Barcinona." The moors conquered Barcelona during their thrust from blue Africa to the southbound of France in 8th period of time.
Only one c years later, the Franks led by Louis the Pious populated Barcelona and developed a rugged subject field being in what became renowned as the Spanish Mark, the fore rank of a nonstop contest involving the Christian kingdoms of the North beside the Arabs. This conflict at the end of the day evolved into what became notable as the Reconquest.
The Carolingian Empire habitual a digit of Counties and Barcelona was the supreme fundamental of them all. The root of the Catalan body politic was supported in Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona who brought about a inheritable set of contacts of sequence. He managed to make compact the region of Barcelona with the lie down of the Carolingian territories formerly his modification in the period of time 898. In the twelvemonth 988 Count Borrell II achieved uniqueness from the Carolingian kings for the County of Barcelona and became the predominant governmental and discipline burden in the territory future set as Catalonia.
The counts of Catalans following confederated their forces and formed the Crown of Aragon who conquered various foreign possessions, ruling the western Mediterranean Sea near outlying territories as far as Athens in the 13th time period. The Catalans managed to support their dynamic forces intact, and by the 14th century Barcelona subordinate a mini-empire with Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, Valencia, the Balearics, the French regions of Rousillon and Cerdagne and surround of Greece.
Barcelona and the administrative district of Catalonia were annexed by the French Empire of Napoleon after he invaded Spain and put his male sibling Joseph on the Spanish throne, but it was returned to Spain after Napoleon's ruin.
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