Catalonia

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  1. A region of northeast Spain bordering on France and the Mediterranean Sea. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was a center of socialist and anarchist activity. Catalan separatists established an autonomous republic (1932-1938) that opposed Francisco Franco's loyalist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

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  • I guess the anarchists and socialists he liquidated in Catalonia, at the end of the civil war, accounted for half of them. —  MacInnes, Helen - The Venetian Affair
  • Contamination case in organic agriculture - Catalonia (Spain)
  • We are now starting a local social-based and GMO-free campaign in Catalonia, although the difficulties of having 17,000 GM maize hectares on our fields.
  • University Politecnica Catalunya in Catalonia is the first to roll out the new cards. —  ContactlessNews | Contactless Smart Cards, RFID, Payment, Transit and Security
  • Now certainly Northern France was not a frontier area like Catalonia, and the obvious need for defensive towers and guardposts is rather less. —  A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe
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