Spain became a unified country in the 15th ... At the beginning of the 20th Century, Catalonia had gained and lost varying degrees of autonomy a number of times. Catalan pro-independence ...

This fueled a fierce Catalan separatist movement beginning in the 19th century. When Spain became a republic in 1931, it granted Catalonia semi-autonomous status. But during the Spanish Civil War ...

In Spain's northeast region of Catalonia ... "We have clients like 20th Century Fox, HBO. A lot of films, European and American, and lots of Japanese cartoons," says Miguel Torres, the technical ...

Initially retaining its own institutions, the Catalonia is ever more tightly integrated into the Spanish state. 19th Century - Emergence of a renewed sense of Catalan identity. 1931 - When Spain ...