A composite monarchy uniting the Kingdom of Aragon, County of Barcelona, and later Valencia and Majorca, that built a Mediterranean empire stretching from Catalonia to Sicily and Sardinia.
Entered into a dynastic union with the Crown of Castile under the Catholic Monarchs from 1479 but retained distinct institutions; formally dissolved by the Nueva Planta decrees issued by Philip V of Spain between 1707 and 1716, which abolished Aragonese laws and parliaments and incorporated its territories into a centralized Kingdom of Spain.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Crown of Aragon — the shape you scrub through changes in 1137 · 1240 · 1386.
Covers Aragon's rise within Iberian and Mediterranean contexts.
The authoritative short history of the composite Aragonese-Catalan Mediterranean monarchy.
This Valencian chivalric romance, written under the Crown of Aragon, is a foundational work of Catalan/Valencian literature from within its span.