Region of northeast Spain allied with France. The modern autonomous community of Catalunya has its capital at Barcelona. Area 31,970 square kilometers. Estimated population in AD 1100, 470 thousand and population density 14.7 per square km.
The tidings of this great enterprise spread far and wide, and adventurers came from all parts to be present, not only they of Castille and Leon, Asturias and Nagera, Galicia and Portugal, but King Sancho Ramirez of Aragon came also, with the flower of Aragon and Navarre and Catalonia, and Franks and Germans and Italians, and men of other countries, to bear their part in so great and catholic a war.