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On Jan 6, 2008 11:53 AM, William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40001 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yeah, but the city list in the ruleset DOES contain cities > > that have never been part of the Principality of Catalonia, or > > the Region of Catalonia or the current Autonomy. > > Which ones? Do they speak Catalan? How did they end up speaking > Catalan without ever being part of Catalonia? Autonomous colonies? All the cities in the current catalan.ruleset are catalan-speaking. There are cities from Catalonia "proper": Barcelona, Girona, Tarragona, Vic, Granollers, etc. There are cities from Valencia (Valencia, Alacant, Elx, etc.) and the Balearic Islands (Palma de Majorca, Eivissa, etc.). After those regions/kingdoms/etc. were reconquered from the muslim, they were repopulated with catalans, who brought their language with them. There are cities from the "Franja Ponent" (Fraga, etc.), a small strip from present-day Aragon that speaks catalan. Besides, the frontier between the principality and the Kingdom moved in historical times - Fraga used to be catalan, for example. There are cities from Catalunya Nord (Perpinyá, etc.) the area of Catalonia taken by the french in 1659 that is still rightfully claimed to be a part of Catalonia proper. And then's the Sardinian city of Alghero (L'Alguer), which was resettled in the 14th century by catalans. Finally, Andorra (a catalan speaking country), doesn't have any cities represented in the ruleset (Andorra la Vella, Sant Julià de Lòria, Encamp and Soldeu could be added). According to catalan nationalists, in order for a city or county or whatever to be a part of the Països Catalans, it must be a catalan-speaking area. -- Miguel Farah [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
