Ribagorza/Ribagorça

La Ribagorza (Catalan ( Baixa ) Ribagorça ) is a Comarca (administrative unit ) of the Aragon Autonomous Community in Spain. It lies in the northeast of the province of Huesca, in the Aragonese Pyrenees and has an area of ​​2459.8 km ² 12,129 inhabitants ( 2002). The capital city is gray.

The Ribagorza is bordered on the southwest by the Somontano de Barbastro, on the west by Sobrabe, to the north by France ( Haute- Garonne), to the east by the Catalan province of Lleida ( comarques Val d' Aran, Alta Ribagorça, Pallars Jussà and Noguera ) and to the south by the Aragonese La Litera.

In addition to gray are the communities Arén, Benabarre, Benasque, Bisaurri, Bonansa, Campo, Capella, Castejón de Sos, Castigaleu, Chía, Estopiñán del Castillo, Foradada del Toscar Isábena, Lascuarre, Laspaúles, Monesma y Cajigar, Montanuy, Perarrúa, La Puebla de Castro, Puente de Montañana, Sahún, Santa Liestra y San Quílez, Secastilla, Seira, Sesué, Sopeira, Tolva, Torre la Ribera, Valle de Bardají, Valle de Lierp, Veracruz, Viacamp y Litera and Villanova to the Comarca.

Ribagorza belongs largely to the areas with katalanischsprachiger population in the east of Aragon, which also form the western boundary of the Catalan language area and as La Franja are known. Especially in the area of the Valley of Benasque an Aragonese - Catalan transition dialect with Occitan Gascon - influences, the Benasques or Patués ) is spoken.

History

Today's Comarca formed the main part of the county Ribagorza that arose in the 9th century in the Spanish Mark of Charlemagne. In the early 10th century conquered troops of the Banu Qasi dynasty of Zaragoza from a part of the Ribagorza and the adjacent county Pallars. 1017 was the county, as well as the county of Aragon and Navarre. When Sancho III. 1035 died, he had divided his empire among his sons. One of them, Gonzalo Sánchez, received the former counties Ribagorza and Sobrabe and became king of his kingdom. After his assassination on June 26, 1045 was his brother Ramiro, who had received Aragon ( the Jacetania ), his successor.

After the dynastic union with Aragon, Catalonia to the crown of Aragon to the field of Ribagorza first in 1244 by James I of Catalonia was awarded. 1300 James II, however, ratified a protocol of the Cortes of Aragon, the annexing the Ribagorza Aragon. The Cortes of Catalonia in 1305 met a contrary decision, which was not ratified by James II. But in 1322 he appointed his son Peter ( Pedro) to the Count of Ribagorza, which should be and govern according to the rules of the Catalan kingdom part vassal, but did participate in the Cortes of Aragon.

The county passed the end of the 16th century at the instigation of Philip II to the Spanish crown (back). After the Nueva Planta Decrees of 1707, which undertook a territorial reorganization of the Aragonese Empire, Ribagorza became the Koregiment Aragon. Background was, inter alia, the opposition of the Ribagorza against the Bourbon Philip V in the War of Spanish Succession. With the establishment of the province of Huesca in 1834, the Ribagorza became the judicial district Benabarre. Benabarre was at that time the capital of the Ribagorza.