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Crown of Aragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1033 words) |
 | In the Late Middle Ages, the Aragonese expansion southwards met with the Castilian advance eastward in the region of Murcia. |
| Aragonese mercenaries known as almogàvers participated in the creation of this Mediterranean "empire", and later found employment in countries all across southern Europe. |
| The union of the territories of the County of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Aragon was brought by the 1137 marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona and Petronila of Aragon. |
| Aragonese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (753 words) |
| Aragonese originated around the 8th century as one of many Latin dialects developed in the Pyrenees on top of a strong Basque-like substratum. |
| The dynastic union of the Catalan Counties and the Kingdom of Aragon—which formed the Aragonese Crown in the 12th century—did not result in a merging of the language forms of the two territories into a single form; Catalan continued to be spoken in the east, and Aragonese in the west. |
| The Aragonese reconquista to the south ended in the kingdom of Murcia, that was ceded by James I of Aragon to the Kingdom of Castile as a dowry for an Aragonese princess. |
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