Catalonia remembered a grim anniversary on Friday. On October 6 1934, the then autonomous Catalan government staged an insurrection and proclaimed independence. It ended with the imprisonment of ...

Barcelona is one of the best-known cities in the world, yet visitors expecting to practice their Spanish can often be surprised when they hear Catalan spoken in the streets. The language has had a ...

MADRID — Catalan separatists believe they have found a way to win over some of the millions of Spanish-speaking residents who have so far been deaf to their arguments ahead of the October 1 referendum ...

Last week, Catalonia’s parliament confirmed Salvador Illa of the Socialist Party (PSOE) as the Catalan regional premier, ending more than a decade of rule by separatist Catalan nationalist parties.

In the hours after their parliament declared independence, thousands of Catalans streamed into the Plaça Sant Jaume, a medieval square in Barcelona that serves as the seat of Catalonia’s regional ...

The movement is "starting to retake positions,” a separatist told ABC News. LONDON -- When an independence referendum was held in Catalonia on Oct. 1, 2017, some citizens in Spain saw an illegal ...

MADRID (AP) — Catalan separatist lawmakers dealt Spain's government a blow Tuesday by voting against a hugely divisive amnesty law that was aimed at helping hundreds of their supporters who were ...

MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy seized the initiative in the Catalan crisis by not just imposing direct rule after the regional parliament declared independence but also calling an ...

Dr. Robert Vann, Western Michigan University full professor of Spanish linguistics, has had a longtime interest in the Catalan language and in the people that live in Catalonia, an autonomous ...

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