Province: Aragon

Owners Title: Conde

% of Worldwide          2.6%                    Starting Population     800                     

Population                                                                                      

% of Worldwide          3.9%                    Starting Income         25,296                  

Income                                                                                          

% of Worldwide GDP      1.1%                    Starting GDP            65,798                  

% of Worldwide          1.5%                    Starting Surplus        496
                     

Surplus                                                                                         

Language: H2

Kingdom: Catalonia

Industrial Fief

Starting Owner: Berenguer (197)

Starting Overlord :Berenguer (197)

Regional Location: South of France

Comments: Aragon (which ranks technically as a kingdom, but whose King's power is rooted in his status as Count of Barcelona ) emerged from the wreck of Visigothic Spain in the century following the Islamic conquest. For a time confined to the fringes of the Pyrenees, by the 11th century it had expanded to the Ebro (Saragossa fell in 1086). In 1137 the Kingdom was united with the County of Barcelona. Aragon is a hard land, with extremes of temperature, but thinly populated. The region is overwhelmingly agricultural and poor. There is an Archbishop in Saragossa.