Catalonia

Barcelona

Maps on our site:



• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, map I-5
  
  
• after 1706, Sebastien de Beaulieu, Plan de la Ville de Barcelone
  
  
• after 1706, Sebastien de Beaulieu, Plan de la Citadelle...
  
  
• 1764, Joseph Roux, Receuil des principaux plans..., pl. 12
  
  
• ~1750, G. M. Seutter, Barcino: Metropolis Hispanici..
  
  
• 1810, William Heather, The Port of Barcelona

Carthaginian settlement was taken by Romans; Visigoths then held the city until Moorish rule began in 8th cen. AD; Carolingian supremacy began in 801; powerful medieval counts controlled all of Catalonia & Aragon; was great commercial power. Capital of Catalonia.

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