'Catalan Countries' (Països Catalans in Catalan) is a modern term
to describe the lands where Catalan is the traditional language.
Catalan is a Romance language spoken by ten million people world-wide.

The Catalan Countries include nowadays Catalonia, Valencia,
the Balearic Islands, a strip in east Aragon, Northern Catalonia
(today part of France), Andorra and the Sardinian city of Alghero.

CULTURE

Catalan Media

Catalan Theatre Worldwide

Catalan Films

Catalan Public Television-Televisió de Catalunya

Catalan Radio- Catalunya Ràdio

Catalan Design- Foster in Arts and Design

Catalan Music from Wikipedia

Catalan Visual Artists Association

Association of Architects of Catalonia (COAC)

Assotiation of Writers in the Catalan Language

Catalan Literature Online (Letra)

What is a castell? (Human Towers)

National Theatre of Catalunya

Institut Ramon Llull

CATALAN HISTORY

History of Catalonia (Government website)

Key dates in Catalan History

Catalonia, a land of reference

Catalan History from Wikipedia

A thousand years of Catalan History-article UNESCO

CATALAN LANGUAGE

Catalan, a European Language

Learn Catalan online (INTERCAT)

Catalan for travellers

A l'abast: Basic communication in Catalan

Living in Catalunya, image vocabulary

Verb forms in Catalan

Catalan verbs (audio)

Multilingual Catalan language Dictionary

Catalan language from Wikipedia

Catalan tongue twisters

The Catalan Countries were part of the Kingdom of Aragon, which in the 15th century included the Principality of Catalonia, the Kingdom of Majorca and the rest of the Balearic Islands, the Kingdoms of Valencia, Aragon and Naples, the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, and the Greek dukedoms of Athens and Neopatria.

The marriage of the Catholic Monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon
and Queen Isabella of Castile in 1479 did not unify all these kingdoms. In the 18th century, the territories of the Aragon Crown were militarily invaded by Castile and incorporated into Spain, abolishing its government institutions and laws, and prohibiting public use of the Catalan language for the first time with the New Regime Decree.

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