Ribagorza

La Ribagorza ( Catalan (Baixa) Ribagorça ) is a comarca ( administrative unit ) of the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain . It is located in the northeast of the province of Huesca in the Aragonese Pyrenees and has an area of 2459.8 km² with 12,129 inhabitants (2002). The capital is horror .

The Ribagorza borders in the southwest on the Somontano de Barbastro , in the west on Sobrarbe , in the north on France ( Haute-Garonne ), in the east on the Catalan province of Lleida (Comarques Val d'Aran , Alta Ribagorça , Pallars Jussà and Noguera ) and in the south to the Aragonese comarca La Litera .

In addition to Graus, the municipalities Arén , Benabarre , Benasque , Beranuy , Bisaurri , Bonansa , Campo , Capella , Castejón de Sos , Castigaleu , Chía , Estopiñán del Castillo , Foradada del Toscar , Isábena , Lascuarre , Laspaúles , Monesma y Cajigar , Montanuy , Perarrúa , La Puebla de Castro , Puente de Montañana , Sahún , Santa Liestra y San Quílez , Secastilla , Seira , Sesué , Sopeira , Tolva , Torre la Ribera , Valle de Bardají , Valle de Lierp , Viacamp y Litera and Villanova to the comarca.

Ribagorza is largely one of the areas with a Catalan-speaking population in eastern Aragon, which at the same time form the western border of the Catalan-speaking area and are known as La Franja . In the area of the Benasque valley in particular, an Aragonese- Catalan transition dialect with Occitan- Gascon influences (the Benasqués or Patués ) is spoken.

history

Today's comarca formed the main part of the county Ribagorza , which emerged in the 9th century in the Spanish march of Charlemagne . In the early 10th century, troops of the Banu Qasi dynasty conquered part of Ribagorza and the adjacent Pallars County from Zaragoza . In 1017 the county, like the county of Aragón, fell to Navarre . As Sancho III. Died in 1035, he had divided his kingdom among his sons. One of them, Gonzalo Sánchez , received the former counties of Ribagorza and Sobrarbe and became king of his kingdom. After his murder on June 26, 1045, his brother Ramiro , who had received Aragon (the Jacetania ), succeeded him.

After the dynastic union of Aragon and Catalonia to form the Crown of Aragon, the area of Ribagorza was first awarded to Catalonia in 1244 by Jacob I. In 1300, however, James II ratified a protocol of the Cortes of Aragon, which incorporated the Ribagorza into Aragon. The Cortes of Catalonia passed a resolution to the contrary in 1305, which James II did not ratify. In 1322, however, he appointed his son Peter (Pedro) Count of Ribagorza, who was supposed to be a vassal and rule according to the rules of the Catalan part of the empire , but had to participate in the Cortes of Aragon.

The county fell to the Spanish crown (back) at the instigation of Philip II at the end of the 16th century . After the Decretos de Nueva Planta of 1707, which undertook a territorial reorganization of the Aragonese Empire, Ribagorza became the coregiment of Aragon. Background was u. a. the opposition of the Ribagorza to the Bourbon Philip V in the War of the Spanish Succession . With the establishment of the province of Huesca in 1834, the Ribagorza became the judicial district of Benabarre. At that time, Benabarre was the capital of the Ribagorza.

literature

Huesca. Guía turística del Altoaragón , Editorial Pirineo, Huesca 2003, ISBN 84-87997-68-6

Web links

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