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  • proper noun Alternative form of Catalonia.

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Examples

  • Catalônia - 'Catalunya' is Catalan catàrrh * catàr, cf. Qátàr catástrophê catastróphic cátchphrase one word

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • - 'Catalunya' is Catalan catàrrh * catàr, cf. Qátàr catástrophê catastróphic cátchphrase one word

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • And whilst the corrupt Franco regime had done lots of bad things to the entire population of Spain, nowhere had its vengeance against those who had stood, fought and died for democracy and freedom been harsher than in Catalunya, and its capital city, Barcelona.

    Homage to Catalunya - And Chelsea No More! Alan Smart 2009

  • And whilst the corrupt Franco regime had done lots of bad things to the entire population of Spain, nowhere had its vengeance against those who had stood, fought and died for democracy and freedom been harsher than in Catalunya, and its capital city, Barcelona.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Alan Smart 2009

  • As for the amazement that these were built in buttoned down Spain, Catalunya is a very different place from the rest of the country – much more cosmopolitan and ars gratia artis than Madrid, for example.

    Matthew Yglesias » Pretty Pictures 2009

  • Video: Made in Catalunya with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson (YouTube) in his press conference Lou Reed said he was fed up with being asked about his darkness, about his bad boy attitudes.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The same happens on April 23rd, Sant Jordi, when traditionally in Catalunya one gives a book and a rose to loved ones.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2004

  • Jasmina Tešanović: Made in Catalunya/Lou and Laurie

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Catalunya is an autonomous region of Spain and you may get some dirty looks from Catalans if you address them in Spanish without first explaining you’re foreign and don’t speak Catalan.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010

  • We are just a small country called Catalunya, from way up there in a corner - and we don't have any say at all.

    The Guardian World News Sid Lowe 2010

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