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Catalonia is one of the 17 autonomous communities, which are administrative regions of Spain. Catalonia also may refer to: Principality of Catalonia , former political unit of southwestern Europe Catalonia , ship a.k.a. HSC Express Dorothy Catalonia , a ...
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Catalonia \Catalonia\ n. a geographical and administrative region of northeastern Spain.
Usage examples of catalonia.
He was delighted, and told me, with evident vanity, that he had gone to Madrid three times, and had been ordered to return to Catalonia on each occasion.
He acknowledged my letter, and told me how delighted he had been to receive it, after hearing the dreadful news that I had been assassinated on the borders of Catalonia at the beginning of January.
She had carte blanche with a banker, and kept up a great state, affirming herself to be with child by the Viceroy of Catalonia, and demanding the honours which would be given to a queen who had graciously chosen Bologna as the place of her confinement.
She only returned to Barcelona on the plea that she wished to pass through Catalonia of her way home, but she does not need to stay there for nine or ten months on that account.
The name is to this day a household word in Catalonia, while the eyes of a few old men still living, who fought with or against him, flash in the light of other days at the mere mention of it.
His face and movements possessed a suggestion of energy which seemed out of place here in the sleepy South, and stamped him as a native not of dreamy Andalusia, but of La Mancha perhaps, where the wit of Spain is concentrated, or of fiery Catalonia, where discontent and unrest are in the very atmosphere of the brown hills.
Moors might have brought this tale of skulls to Catalonia in the eighth or ninth century.
The day after Don Miguel introduced me to the Comte de Ricla, Viceroy of Catalonia, and the lover of Nina.
I must request you to leave Barcelona in three days, and Catalonia in a week.
Connolly yesterday wanted to quote a passage from Homage to Catalonia in his broadcast.
His publications include Down and Out in Paris and London, Burmese Days, The Road to Wigan Pier, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia, and Inside the Whale.
And anyway, did anyone outside Catalonia even remember the pocket catastrophe of that earthquake?
A detailed record of such events in Castile and Catalonia is provided by William A.
Nelson complained of this to the captain general of Catalonia, informing him that he claimed, for every British ship or squadron, the right of lying, as long as it pleased, in the ports of Spain, while that right was allowed to other powers.
For some year or more, the condado was administered for the King of Leon and Catalonia by a royal commissioner, then was added to the holdings of the ducado grande, which lands it abutted.