County of Barcelona

The County of Barcelona (Latin: Comitatus Barcinonensis, Catalan: Comtat de Barcelona) was a polity in northeastern Iberian Peninsula, originally located in the southern frontier region of the Carolingian Empire. In the 10th century, the Counts of Barcelona progressively achieved independence from Frankish rule, becoming hereditary rulers in constant warfare with the Islamic Caliphate of Córdoba and its successor states. The counts, through marriage, alliances and treaties, acquired or vassalized the other Catalan counties and extended their influence over Occitania. In 1164, the County of Barcelona entered a personal union with the Kingdom of Aragon. Thenceforward, the history of the county is subsumed within that of the Crown of Aragon, but the city of Barcelona remained preeminent within it.

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County of Barcelona Comitatus Barcinonensis (Latin) Comtat de Barcelona (Catalan)
801–1162
The county of Barcelona (red) in the context of peninsular expansion of the Crown of Aragon.
Capital	Barcelona
Common languages	Occitano-Romance (Old Occitan and Old Catalan), Latin
Religion	Chalcedonian Christianity (Roman Catholic after Great Schism c. 1054)
Government	Feudal monarchy
Count
• 801–820	Berà
• 1131–1162	Ramon Berenguer IV
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	801
• Disestablished	1162
Preceded by Succeeded by Marca Hispánica Emirate of Córdoba Crown of Aragon Principality of Catalonia
Today part of	France Spain  ∟ Catalonia

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Ancient Prehistory   Iberians 6th c. BC – 1st c. BC Greek colonies 6th c. BC – 1st c. BC Roman conquest of Hispania 218 BC – 19 BC Tarraconensis 27 BC – 476 AD
Medieval Visigoths 5th c.-720 Al-Andalus 713–1154 Catalan counties / Gothia 760–12th c. County of Barcelona 801–1162 Crown of Aragon 1162–1715 Principality of Catalonia 12th c.-1714 Compromise of Caspe 1412 War of the Remences 1462–1486 Catalan Civil War 1462–1472
Early modern Catholic Monarchs 1469–1516 Habsburg Spain 1516–1700 Reapers' War / Catalan Republic 1640-1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees 1659 Revolt of the Barretines 1687-1689 War of the Spanish Succession 1700-1715 War of the Catalans 1713-1714 Nueva Planta decrees 1716
Modern Peninsular War 1808–1814 Liberals and Carlists 1833-1876 Renaixença 1833–1892 Catalanism 1870s- Tragic Week 1909 Commonwealth 1914–1925 La Canadenca strike 1919 Catalan Republic 1931 Statute of Autonomy 1932-1939 Events of 6 October 1934 Spanish Civil War / Revolution 1936-1939
Contemporary Francoism 1939-1975 Transition to democracy 1975-1982 Statute of Autonomy 1979-2006 Barcelona '92 1992 Statute of Autonomy 2006- Independence movement 2010-
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Within the Crown, the County of Barcelona and the other Catalan counties progressively merged into a polity known as the Principality of Catalonia, which assumed the institutional and territorial continuity of the County of Barcelona.