Catalans

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Catalan (from latin Catalanus , the Catalan , of Catalonia ) are members of a to the novels counted people with Catalan mother tongue , which in the Mediterranean area in the northeast of the Iberian peninsula is located.

term

The native inhabitants of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the French foothills of the Pyrenees around Perpignan are usually referred to as Catalans. The Spanish and French Catalans share a common language. In summary, the Catalan-speaking populations of all so-called Països Catalans can be addressed as Catalans in the sense of a linguistic community. Historically, the name can denote an origin from the Catalan-speaking Levant , in particular from the Catalan counties and the Principality of Catalonia within the Aragonese Empire .

In the German-speaking context, the term was occasionally used to describe a Catalan ethnic group . This should include all of the Catalan speakers in the Països Catalans . However, such a point of view is not shared by academia or by the majority of Catalan nationalists . In the discourse of the latter, the concept of the nation occupies a central position, an assignment of individuals to a certain ethnic group does not play a role.

language

The Catalan language is a Romance language that is close to Occitan and forms a link between the Gallo-Roman and the Ibero-Roman languages .

habitat

Catalans in the sense of Catalan-speaking populations live today in the Spanish autonomous regions of Catalonia and Valencia , in the eastern border area of Aragon ( Franja de Aragón ), in a small language island in the northwest of the province of Murcia , in the Balearic Islands , in French Roussillon , in Andorra and in Italian Alghero in Sardinia .

Controversy

Many with the linguistic , cultural accruing, historical and national identity of the Catalans and the stress from political rights related issues are inside and outside Spain and Catalonia highly controversial. This also includes the scope and definition of the Catalan countries and the Catalan language community. The Catalanism , of the region of Catalonia has a wide following especially in the north and west, is committed to the national, cultural, and increasingly government autonomy one of the Catalan people and expands this concern sometimes to the inhabitants of the other Catalan-speaking countries from.

literature

  • Patrick Eser: Fragmented Nation - Globalized Region? Basque and Catalan nationalism in the context of globalization and European integration. transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2344-4 .
  • Montserrat Guibernau: Catalan nationalism: Francoism, transition and democracy. Routledge, London / New York 2004, ISBN 0-415-32240-5 .
  • Ulrich Matthée : Catalan question and Spanish autonomies. Schöningh, Paderborn 1988, ISBN 3-506-75420-3 .
  • Raphael Minder: The Struggle for Catalonia. Rebel Politics in Spain. Hurst, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-84904-803-3 .
  • Jörg Mose: Catalonia between separatism and transnationalization. On the construction and dynamics of spatial identities (= Forum Political Geography , Volume 10). Lit, Münster / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12283-4 .
  • Klaus-Jürgen Nagel (Ed.): Catalonia in Spain and Europe. Is There a Way to Independence? Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-8487-1828-3 .
  • Stanley Payne : Catalan and Basque Nationalism. In: Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 6 (1971), No. 1, pp. 15-51 (online) .

Web links

Wiktionary: Catalans  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Jakob Egli : Nomina geographica. Language and factual explanation of 42,000 geographical names of all regions of the world. 2nd Edition. Friedrich Brandstetter, Leipzig 1893, p. 176 ( Cataluña ).
  2. Catalans. In: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie , online edition, NE GmbH , accessed on July 6, 2018.
  3. ^ So Der Fischer Weltalmanach 2003 , Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, Sp. 739; but no longer Der Fischer Weltalmanach 2006 , Frankfurt am Main 2005, Sp. 426.
  4. Efthymis Angeloudis: The Catalonia conflict, clearly explained. In: Krautreporter , October 24, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2019 (citing Hans-Ingo Radatz, University of Bamberg ).
  5. Una isla valenciana en Murcia. In: ABC . December 26, 2011, accessed July 16, 2020 (Spanish).
  6. Walther L. Bernecker: Between "Nation" and "Nationality": the Basque Country and Catalonia. In: From Politics and Contemporary History 36/37 (2010). Online on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on July 6, 2018.