Goodbye to Catalonia?
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Catalonia and the Reaper's War, Ok?
Calogna was participating in the same sort of patterns of political problems and social problems that come up over and over again all out the west in the 16 and 17 hundreds. The last hapsburg king of spain dies in 17 hundred, he has no clear successor, and a succession crisis ensues. And we see an alignment beginning right here in 16 forty, an increasing alignment of the cadalan elite and cadalan middle class with ordinary peasantsfor in the name of cadalan independence. So this reaper's war was defeated 16 52, but it was not an entire loss because the spanish crown did agree to recognize the special regional rights of catalona.
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