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catalonia

/kat-l-oh-nee-uh, -ohn-yuh/US // ˌkæt lˈoʊ ni ə, -ˈoʊn yə //UK // (ˌkætəˈləʊnɪə) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a region in NE Spain, bordering on France and the Mediterranean: formerly a province.

Examples

  • Many of the city’s restaurants have gone dark, and the open ones are allowed to serve breakfast and lunch but not dinner — the regional government of Catalonia has ruled they must close by late afternoon.

  • California’s choice—as in Catalonia, where Castellnou is chief scientist for the autonomous province’s 4,000-person fire corps—is to either move with that change and have some chance of influencing it, or be bowled over by megafires.

  • Cases began to spike again in July, and some more drastic restrictions such as closing restaurants and bars in Catalonia did not come until October.

  • “A referendum on self-determination is necessary to reset the relationship between Catalonia and Spain,” according to the site.

  • Better for Russia to annex Venice, Catalonia or Alaska (all of which have well-publicized if improbable secessionist movements).

  • There have been fitful mutterings about Catalonia, the region of Spain where Barcelona is, seceding from Spain.

  • It is, however, good for the coalition partners in Catalonia, who have shrewdly set a far-away date for the referendum.

  • Others have also found exaggerations in Homage to Catalonia.

  • Hastalrick, in Catalonia, evacuated for want of provisions; the garrison cut their way through the French troops.

  • From this time onwards Aragon became the base from which was organised the conquest of Catalonia and Valencia.

  • Suchet's conquest of Aragon, Catalonia, and Valencia was marked by a succession of brilliant sieges.

  • In Aragon and Catalonia the Carlists are the dominating faction, and are making themselves troublesome.

  • It was while in England that the first signs of discontent in Catalonia began to manifest themselves.