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The Mancomunitat de Catalunya was an institution that grouped the four Catalan 'diputacions', (or province administrations) created the 6 April of 1914, while the process for its creation futile starts to the 1911. Capital Barcelona Official languages Catalan and Spanish In Val dAran, also Aranese. ...
April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ...
1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
The Spanish Parliament approved it with very much cutted competences, however the senate never did it. Insert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text here:This article is about the legislative institution. ...
In 18 December of 1913 the king signed the law granting the right of provincial associations. December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
It was formed by the federation of the four Catalan regional governments, in a long historical demand of Catalans. Even though it had to have purely administrative functions, and its competences did not go beyond those of the provincial regional governments, it acquired a great political importance: it represented the first recognition by the Spanish state of the personality and of the unity of Catalonia since the year 1714. // Events August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. ...
Its first President was Enric Prat de la Riba and afterwards the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, both of the Lliga Regionalista, and carried out an important task of infrastructure creation of ways and ports, hydraulic works, railways, telephones, charity and health. Also it undertook initiatives for increasing the agricultural and forest yields introducing technological improvements, of services and educational and promoted the technological education necessary for the Catalan industry. Josep Puig i Cadafalch Josep Puig i Cadafalch (October 15, 1867 - December 21, 1956) was a modernistic Catalan architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona. ...
It created and consolidated a set of cultural and scientific institutions in order to give greater prestige to the language and the Catalan culture, like the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute of Catalan Studies), the Biblioteca de Catalunya (Library of Catalonia), the Escola Industrial (Industrial School), the Escola Superior de Belles Arts (Superior School of Fine Arts), the Escola Superior de Belles Arts (Superior School of High Commercial Studies) or the Escola del Treball (School of the Work). Prat de la Riba also created, the Escola de l'Administració Local (School of Local Administration), from where a body of Catalan civil servants had to appear. The Institut dEstudis Catalans (IEC) is an academic institution. ...
Another important milestone of the Mancomunitat was the promotion of the work of Pompeu Fabra, who was the main designer of the current Catalan ortography and linguistic standard. Pompeu Fabra i Poch, (Barcelona 1868 - Prada de Conflent 1948) was a Catalan grammarian, the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. ...
Catalan (Català ) or Valencian (Valencià ) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and co-official in several regions of Spain. ...
It was disbanded and prohibited during Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marqués de Estella (Jerez, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish military official who ruled Spain as a dictator from 1923 to 1930, ending the turno system of alternating parties. ...
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