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Freedom for Catalonia!
per listening	10 set 2007
DO YOU WANT TO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CATALONIA, CATALAN COUNTRIES AND CATALAN LANGUAGE?
Catalan Countries are a little nation without sovereignty, in the east of the Iberian Peninsula and south of the Pyrenean mountain range. There are 4 important capitals: València, Palma de Mallorca, Perpinyà and Barcelona. They have a population of about 12 million people and their native language is CATALAN. In Catalonia,more than the 40% of the population is in favour of independence: we demand complete national sovereignty for the Catalan Countries, that is total political independence from France and Spain. Politically the Catalan Countries are, at the present, 3 Autonomous Communities within the Spanish state plus a region of the French state. They have 3 parliaments, which, however, have little legislative power, and 3 autonomous government called Govern Balear, Generalitat Valenciana and Generalitat de Catalunya. They became part of the Spanish state in 1707-1714. In those years, the army of the kingdom of Castlile invaded the Catalan Countries and from then on they were no longer a sovereign state. Until the present, the Castilian kings, at first, and then the different Spanish governments and dictatures have tried to eliminate the Catalan cultural identity and create animosity between the Catalans and the rest of the people in the Iberian Peninsula. Nevertheless the Catalans have managed to keep their language and traditions alive and we, the Catalans, continue to claim the sovereignty that was ours but was taken from us by armed force.
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