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The Seaport municipal Barcelona is municipality in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea. Located in the comarca of Barcelonès, along the Mediterranean seacoast concerning the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, Barcelona is the greatest port, the ordinal large city, and of import trade & business hub of Spain. Barcelona is assets of Catalonia free region.

The substance of Barcelona began more than 2,500 eld ago when Phoenicians and Carthaginians accomplished on the commercial quay. Barcelona is believed to be supported by the Carthaginians circa 230 BC. The label of Carthaginian sovereign Amilcar Barca is oft referred to as the root of the entitle Barcino.

The Carthaginians were replaced by the Romans in the 1st period B.C. After the crash down of Roman empire, the Visigoths invaded the conurbation in the archaeozoic 5th period and renamed the urban as "Barcinona." The moors conquered Barcelona during their drive from blue Africa to the southwestward of France in 8th time period.

Only one cardinal age later, the Franks led by Louis the Pious occupied Barcelona and demonstrated a passionate territorial army attendance in what became renowned as the Spanish Mark, the fascia column of a rigid conflict between the Christian kingdoms of the North next to the Arabs. This hostilities over time evolved into what became far-famed as the Reconquest.

The Carolingian Empire set up a cipher of Counties and Barcelona was the record exalted of them all. The native land of the Catalan res publica was supported in Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona who planted a heritable net of succession. He managed to merge the county of Barcelona beside the leftovers of the Carolingian territories beforehand his disappearance in the period 898. In the twelvemonth 988 Count Borrell II achieved freedom from the Carolingian kings for the County of Barcelona and became the preponderating ambassadorial and martial drive in the area subsequently legendary as Catalonia.

The counts of Catalans next confederated their forces and definite the Crown of Aragon who conquered masses far-off possessions, law the western Mediterranean Sea beside outlying territories as far as Athens in the 13th period of time. The Catalans managed to livelihood their productive forces intact, and by the 14th period Barcelona subordinate a mini-empire as well as Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, Valencia, the Balearics, the French regions of Rousillon and Cerdagne and environment of Greece.

Barcelona and the administrative district of Catalonia were annexed by the French Empire of Napoleon after he invaded Spain and put his blood brother Joseph on the Spanish throne, but it was returned to Spain after Napoleon's shame.

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