Cataluña y su orígen carolingio en la Marca Hispánica

⭐ Join our exclusive club    / @storiopolis   At the end of the 8th century, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, even before becoming emperor, had his eyes set on his southwestern border, the Pyrenees Mountains. There, he decided to create the Marca Hispanica, a buffer zone that would serve to withstand the onslaught of the Muslims from Córdoba while also expanding his dominions. In 785, he reconquered the fortress of Gerona, and in 801, the ancient Roman city of Barcino, Barcelona. But the Frankish-Carolingian push quickly came to an end; from the powerful Muslim fortress of Zaragoza, and together with the Basque rebels, they halted any further expansion during the 9th century. The other problem was the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire, which led to a cluster of Catalan counties that formed the Spanish March, many of them created specifically to divide the territories, so as not to depend on the dictates of the Franks, who appointed and removed counts as they pleased. It took time for the swarm of counties in the eastern Pyrenees to achieve a degree of unity. The first to attempt this was Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona, ​​Urgell, Girona, Osona, and Cerdanya. Although he accumulated considerable power from Barcelona, ​​the greatest Catalan power, definitive unity was still a long way off. It took the Catalans so long to achieve this that unity came from another domain, from the western Pyrenees; a kingdom that had been growing by leaps and bounds, the Kingdom of Aragon, eventually finding in the County of Barcelona the opportunity to expand the Christian power of the region. In 1137, Petronilla of Aragon was married to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona. Their son, Alfonso II, inherited both titles and, in 1164, created a new entity, the Crown of Aragon, which strictly respected the customs and traditions of the Catalans. However, even within the County of Barcelona, ​​it was not easy to fully unite other Catalan domains, so it was necessary to wait almost 200 more years, until, in 1325, the last Catalan county, Empúries, was finally annexed to Aragon. Today, in Storiopolis, we learn about the medieval history of Catalonia, an autonomous community that remains inseparable today. It took a long and laborious 600 years for its medieval construction to be completed. Sources: A Brief History of Catalonia, Pierre Vilar https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/... A Brief History of Catalonia, Jordi Canal https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/histo... A Brief History of the Reconquista, José Ignacio de la Torre: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/... #catalonia #spain #barcelona