The County of Barcelona corresponds to the territory ruled by the Counts of Barcelona between the ninth and the eighteenth centuries from which, historically, Catalonia as a political entity was formed.
Read more about County Of Barcelona: Origins, Frankish Rule, Autonomy and Unification, Independence, Birth of The Kingdom of Aragon, Abandonment of Countship
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“In the county there are thirty-seven churches
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—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)