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History of Barcelona

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Barcelona, The Big and Historical City In this article, we will try to give information about  Barcelona History . Let's check how Barcelona became  Barcelona city . I hope we can guide you about the history of Barcelona. Barcelona was founded as Roman city. The city became the capital of County of Barcelona. When the Kingdom of Aragon merged with Barcelona city, it went on to be one of the most important city in the Crown of Aragon. The Aragon Kingdom was a state survived between 11th and 15th century in the northeast of Spain. Barcelona is like a capital city of Catalonia and also the second biggest city in Spain. The name of Barcelona comes from Iberian Phonecian. In Latin Barcelona derived from Barcino, Barcilonum and Barcenona. According to some sources, the city was called Barcelona by general Hamilcar Barca who was believed the founder of the city in the 3rd century BC. Barcelona name is sometimes abbreviated as Barna and by the outsiders it is called as Barça which is ...

Religion in Barcelona - Spain

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Barcelona has a deep-rooted religion culture stemming from the city's 2000 years history. Being such an established city, the religion culture offers diversity to the people. In this article, we will try to explain how the religion culture is in Barcelona, Spain. Catholicism which is a life style in  Barcelona city  consists of the population varying from 81% to 94% rates.  Throughout the history, the city had undergone many wars and met different cultures such as Romans, Muslims and Jews. So Roman catholicism can be seen as frontrunner and you can come across a person who says h/she doesn't believe in anything but yet is a catholic as they see the catholicism as a life style. So how does religion affect the social life? As we've mentioned above, even though catholicism is high in Barcelona city, for the social life issues, they act much more liberal when compared to other European countries maybe because of the 35-year dictatorship which ended a few decades ago. So they ...