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The Seaport city Barcelona is metropolitan area in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea. Located in the comarca of Barcelonès, along the Mediterranean beach relating the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, Barcelona is the largest port, the ordinal largest city, and chief commercialised & commercial enterprise hub of Spain. Barcelona is possessions of Catalonia independent spot.

The relation of Barcelona began more than than 2,500 geezerhood ago when Phoenicians and Carthaginians deterministic on the trade larboard. Barcelona is believed to be based by the Carthaginians about 230 BC. The heading of Carthaginian queen Amilcar Barca is frequently referred to as the starting place of the linguistic unit Barcino.

The Carthaginians were replaced by the Romans in the 1st century B.C. After the spatter of Roman empire, the Visigoths invaded the town in the proto 5th period of time and renamed the capital as "Barcinona." The moors conquered Barcelona during their driving force from federal Africa to the southwestern of France in 8th period.

Only one c age later, the Franks led by Louis the Pious engaged Barcelona and established a strengthened bailiwick beingness in what became far-famed as the Spanish Mark, the front part line of a invariable combat relating the Christian kingdoms of the North near the Arabs. This confrontation in time evolved into what became familiar as the Reconquest.

The Carolingian Empire legitimate a digit of Counties and Barcelona was the most significant of them all. The birth of the Catalan res publica was supported in Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona who planted a hereditary scheme of chronological sequence. He managed to integrate the region of Barcelona near the what's left of the Carolingian territories up to that time his release in the year 898. In the twelvemonth 988 Count Borrell II achieved distinctiveness from the Carolingian kings for the County of Barcelona and became the predominate ambassadorial and subject area pressurize in the part later noted as Catalonia.

The counts of Catalans following confederated their forces and definite the Crown of Aragon who conquered more abroad possessions, order the occidental Mediterranean Sea with far territories as far as Athens in the 13th period. The Catalans managed to save their inspired forces intact, and by the 14th period Barcelona subordinate a mini-empire with Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, Valencia, the Balearics, the French regions of Rousillon and Cerdagne and surroundings of Greece.

Barcelona and the administrative district of Catalonia were annexed by the French Empire of Napoleon after he invaded Spain and put his blood brother Joseph on the Spanish throne, but it was returned to Spain after Napoleon's ruination.