Province: Barcelona

Owners Title: Conde

% of Worldwide          3.2%                    Starting Population     1,000                   

Population                                                                                      

% of Worldwide          5.3%                    Starting Income         34,138                  

Income                                                                                          

% of Worldwide GDP      2.6%                    Starting GDP            160,887                 

% of Worldwide          1.0%                    Starting Surplus        338
                     

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Language: H1

Kingdom: Catalonia

Industrial Fief

Starting Owner: Berenguer (197)

Starting Overlord : Berenguer (197)

Regional Location: Far South Central Spain

Comments: Barcelona, the city at the heart of the county, was founded by the Carthaginian Barca family, of which Hannibal was the most notable member. It passed to Rome some two centuries before Christ and remained a small, but prosperous city even under Visigothic rule, which was imposed seven centuries later. In the 6th century for a time under Muslim rule, the city was incorporated into Charlemagne's Empire as part of the Spanish March, and subsequently has become the hub of the Aragonese-Catalan world. The Count is subject to the Ecclesiastical authority of the Archbishop of Tarragona, and there is a resident Bishop as well. There is much shipping, trading, banking, and manufacturing in Barcelona and its environs, as well as a highly productive agricultural economy.