Spanish provinces

Regionalism and nationalism
In Spain the political regionalism develops sXIX late, during the Restoration.
Regionalism is a sense of belonging to a particular community.
When this feeling becomes strong, evolving towards decentralization policies. Then be called nationalism. Their common features were:
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Exaltation of their own language.
Existence of common past
Existence of a race
· Claiming the courts to make special laws to the community
· Defense of economic interests.
The factors favoring nationalism were:
Existence of cultural movements
Centrality · Criticism
Presence of 2 springs Auto Central
• The impact of the industrialization process
Catalan nationalism: it was built in several stages.
· 1830, the beginning of the Renaissance, is an intellectual movement, literature and politics based on the recovery of the Catalan language.
· 1882, he created the Catalan Centre, is a political organization calling for the independence and denounced the chieftaincy.
· 1891, he founded the Catalan Union of Catholic conservative ideology and self proclaimed state and a division of Spanish and Catalan autonomy.
· 1901, he founded the regional league, Conservative, Catholic and bourgeois with 2 goals. Self-defense policy and economic interests of Catalan industrialists.
Basque nationalism: the bourgeoisie was born in Bilbao.
The PNV, Basque Nationalist Party, founded by Sabino Arana had ideologies as:
• Independence of the Basque Country
Radical anti-Spanish ·
· Exaltation of the Basque ethnic group, opposed to marriage between Maketos and Basque.
· Integrated catholic
• Promotion of Basque language and traditions.
Gallego Regionalism: They did not want an independent state but autonomy.
Valencian regionalism: He was very important after 1907, when he founded the Nova Valencia.
Andalusian regionalism: By show of Cordoba, 1919, called for the settlement of land and political autonomy of Andalusia.
Canario Nationalism: The lawsuit island was not only economic rivalry between the 2 major ports canaries, Santa Cruz and Las Palmas, but a dispute between advocates of centralism Tenerife, who wanted to maintain a single province of Gran Canaria and divisive, they wanted the division of the islands in 2 provinces.