Catalan nationalism  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search  Catalan nationalism is the nationalism
which asserts that Catalans are a nation and promotes the
cultural unity of Catalans.  Intellectually, Catalan nationalism
can be said to have commenced as a political philosophy in the
unsuccessful attempts to establish a federal state in Spain in
the context of the First Republic. Valentí Almirall i Llozer and
other intellectuals that participated in this process set up a
new political ideology in the 19th century, to restore self-
government, as well as to obtain recognition for the Catalan
language. These demands were summarized in the so-called Bases
de Manresa in 1892.  It met very little support at first.1 But
after the Spanish-American war in which the United States
invaded and annexed the last of the Spanish colonies, these
early stages of Catalanism grew in support, mostly because of
the weakened Spanish international position after the war and
the loss of the two main destin