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Barcelona (Spanish and Catalan: Barcelona) Spanish city located in the northeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean coast between the rivers Llobregat and Estuarine Bezios. Lies 160 km from the Pyrenees is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, the capital of Catalonia and the province of Barcelona. A population of about 1,615,448 people while the population of the city suburbs Viady four million people. Which held the Olympics in 1992.
Some legends say that (Hamlessar Parsa) and Hannibal's father founded the city of Barcelona in Barcelona where there are today, but this is historically Sticky considered as just a myth. In the fifth century BC, the Romans took from the area or camp bastion of the armies of the state. In the early fifth century AD, took control of the region Visigoths immigrants to the Iberian Peninsula and the Saracens in the eighth century, however, Lewis bin Charlemagne was able to City opens in 801 and remained Barcelona under Christian rule until 985, when opened again Muslim leader Almanzor Mansour was recoverable by the Iberians rulers of Catalonia in 1137 AD.
Barcelona rulers after the Islamic period worked to expand the County of Barcelona recover neighboring regions of Andalusia, the Balearic Islands and the city of Valencia and founded what is known as the Kingdom of Aragon, which seized control of large parts of the Mediterranean territory during the thirteenth century and reached the cities in the maximum Kothena.
The city was destroyed during the reign of the Spanish war in 1714. As the King Philip V of Spain demolished neighborhood merchants in the city to build a military base as part of the punishment of the city that arose against his rule. Prevent speak Catalan and prevent the teaching in the university, which opened in 1450.
City followed the French empire during the reign of Napoleon after the French occupied Spain and the development of Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, the ruler of the occupied parts. Liberated areas occupied Spanish after the fall of Napoleon.
During the nineteenth century, the city grew during the period of the industrial revolution, as has been the center of many commercial industries. During that period when Madrid weakened the authority of the city of Barcelona, the city's residents to demolish the wall built in the Middle Ages as well as the fort was converted Alribeira to a public park.