Back تاريخ برشلونة Arabic Història de Barcelona Catalan Historia de Barcelona Spanish Histoire de Barcelone French Stair Bharcelona Irish Historia de Barcelona Galician היסטוריה של ברצלונה HE Barselona#Istorija Lithuanian História de Barcelona Portuguese Историја Барселоне Serbian
Historical affiliations
Roman Republic, pre-27 BC
Roman Empire, 27 BC–AD 395
Western Roman Empire, 395–414
Visigothic Kingdom, 414–717
Umayyad Caliphate, 717−750
Abbasid Caliphate, 750−756
Umayyad state of Córdoba, 756−801
County of Barcelona, 801−1162
Principality of Catalonia, 1162−1714
Bourbon Spain, 1714–1808
Napoleonic Spain, 1808–1812
First French Empire, 1812–1814
Kingdom of Spain, 1814–1873
First Spanish Republic, 1873–1874
Second Spanish Republic, 1931–1939
Francoist Spain, 1939–1975
Kingdom of Spain, 1975–present
The history of Barcelona stretches over 2000 years to its origins as an Iberian village named Barkeno.[1] Its easily defensible location on the coastal plain between the Collserola ridge (512 m) and the Mediterranean Sea, the coastal route between central Europe and the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, has ensured its continued importance, if not always preeminence, throughout the ages.
Barcelona is currently a city of 1,620,943,[2] the second largest in Spain, and the capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its wider urban region is home to three-quarters of the population of Catalonia and one-eighth of that of Spain.
- ^ Joan de Déu Prats (2009). Llegendes històriques de Barcelona. L'Abadia de Montserrat. p. 11. ISBN 978-84-9883-064-4.
- ^ INE (25 March 2013). "Population of Barcelona". Instituto Nacional de Estadistica.