¡Cu-Cut! Incident
The ''¡Cu-Cut!'' incident, also known as La Cuartelada, was an assault conducted by Spanish officers on the Catalan satirical magazine ''¡Cu-Cut!'' offices in Barcelona on November 25, 1905 in response to the publication of a satirical cartoon mocking the Spanish military. Background Spanish military personnel had been a common target of ''¡Cu-Cut!s editors because the Spanish Army had become an outdated and defective institution. Moreover, a sentiment prevailed in Barcelona that viewed the Spanish Army as the arm of a centralist and repressive government. General Valeriano Weyler and the role of the Spanish Army in the painful defeat in Cuba were recurrent topics of the magazine. The November 12, 1905 municipal elections in Barcelona were a success for the Lliga Regionalista, a Catalanist political party to which ''¡Cu-Cut!'' was affiliated. Six days later, the ''Lliga'' organized a celebratory dinner at the Frontón Condal building. That was not liked by rival Lerrouxi ...
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Catalonia
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. The capital and largest city, Barcelona is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas
– Demographia, April 2018 Current day Catalonia comprises most of the medieval and early modern Principality o ...
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