Spain
Spain is a country of 47 million people in southwestern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. The main language of Spain is, unsurprisingly, Spanish but there are also a number of regional languages with official status in their respective areas, including Catalan, Galician and Basque. I wrote my honours thesis about children’s experience of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona, and the way the war was remembered during and after the Franco dictatorship.
Wiki
- : 🪴 Marcos Ana: Marcos Ana (1920–2016) was a Spanish anti-fascist poet who was imprisoned for 23 years (1939–1962) during the Franco …
- : 🪴 Franco dictatorship: The Franco dictatorship was a fascist dictatorship that ruled over Spain between 1939–1975, following its victory in the …
- : 🪴 Llívia: Llívia is an enclave in the Pyrenees, legally part of Spain, but surrounded by French territory. Llívia residents …
- : 💬 Occitano-Romance: The Occitano-Romance languages are a subfamily of the Romance languages that straddles the border between Spain and …
- : 💬 Astur-Leonese: Astur-Leonese is an Ibero-Romance language with a few hundred thousand speakers that is usually known by the name of one …
- : 💬 Extremaduran: Extremaduran is an Ibero-Romance language spoken in the Spanish autonomous community of Extremadura along with adjoining …
- : 💬 Ibero-Romance: The Ibero-Romance languages are a subfamily of the Romance languages which originated in the Iberian Peninsula. Its most …
- : 💬 Aragonese: Aragonese is a Romance language spoken by about 12,000 people in the northern part of Aragón, in Spain. It is usually …
- : 💬 Spanish: Spanish (also known as Castilian) is the most widely spoken of the Romance languages, with an estimated 483 million …
- : 💬 Catalan: Catalan belongs to the Occitano-Romance branch of the Romance languages. It is largely spoken in eastern Spain, …
- : 🪴 Mallorca: Mallorca is the largest of the Balearic Islands in Spain, with a population of about 900,000 people. Its capital city is …
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Book Reviews
- : 📚 Book review: The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson (★★★½)
- : 📚 Book review: Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas (★★★★)
- : 📚 Book review: The Body Hunter by Najat El Hachmi (★★★½)
- : 📚 Book review: Amb ulls de nena by Encarnació Martorell i Gil