Crown of Aragonball

Crown of Aragonball was a composite monarchy ruled by the same king in the current Spainball, formed by the kingdoms of Aragonball, Valenciaball, Mallorcaball, the Principality of Cataloniaball and others like Athensball, Duchy of Neopatrasball, Sicilyball, Sardinia and Corsicaball or Kingdom of Naplesball.
During the early modern times, it was married with its cousin Crown of Castileball, creating the Kingdom of Spainball, but finally, after the War of the Spanish Succession, its institutions and public law were suppressed in favor of a centralist model of Castileball.
It is the parent of Cataloniaball, Valenciaball, Aragonball Jr and Balearic Islandsball.
==History==
=== Origins ===
It was born in 1164 from a dynastic union between the Kingdom of Aragonball and the County of Barcelonaball, thus, all the Catalan counties would be annexed to Crown of Aragonball as a dynastic merger. Gradually the Crown of Aragonball began to conquer territories thanks to its King James I, who after failing to invade the northern Kingdom of Franceball, managed to invade Valenciaball and the Balearic Islandsball. Also, the Aragonese soldiers were going to conquer Murciaball but in the end decided to recognize it under the Crown of Castileball.
=== Maritime expansion ===
After these events, the Crown of Aragonball focused on maritime trade and came to invade Athensball and the Neopatrasball, where he created some duchies (lasted from 1311 to 1388) and expanded its power in the Mediterranean, this during the "Great Catalan Company" where Almogavars soldiers of the Crown of Aragonball hired by Byzantineball fought commanded by Roger de Flor against the Ottoman Empireball. One day Byzantineball assassinated Roger de Flor, betraying the Almogavars of the Crown of Aragonball, and in revenge the Almogavars invaded Byzantineball, devastating it for two years in the so-called "Catalan revenge", so Ottoman Empireball took the opportunity to finally invade Byzantineball.
During this period the Valencian/Catalan language had a literary golden century, with works such as Tirant lo Blanch.
=== Union with Castile ===
 Crown of Aragonball began a personal union in 1479 with the Crown of Castileball through the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs to create Spanish Empireball, but the Crown of Aragonball continued to have its own rules and continued to expand into Naples, the island of Sardinia, among other territories while Castileball focused on the Americas.
With the marriage union between Castileball and Aragon, the Castilian or Spanish language began to gain popularity within the Crown of Aragonball, beginning to replace the relevance that Aragonese and Catalan had from the 15th century onwards. This period is known as the decline of the Catalan language. In the 17th century, during the Franco-Spanish War, Cataloniaball was proclaimed as a republic and fought for the French side, but would later be re-annexed by Spainball, although Roussillon would be ceded to Franceball.
Finally during the War of the Spanish Succession (a kind of civil war in the Spanish Empire) the Crown of Aragonball in 1701 originally supported the Crown of Castileball and Kingdom of Franceball, but between 1705 and 1706 it changed sides, supporting Austriaball and declaring him king of Aragon and count of Barcelona, therefore the Crown of Castileball (who supported the French king) razed cities of the Crown of Aragon, losing its institutions after the Decree of Nueva Planta and its final demise. The Spanish monarchy was centralized in Castile and the institutions of the Crown of Aragon were abolished.
=== Nationalist revisionism ===
Some nationalist and separatist movements in Spainball, such as those of Cataloniaball and Valenciaball, consider their former kingdoms in the Crown of Aragonball as the historical basis of their nations, while Spainball's nationalism tends to place importance on the union of Aragonball with Castileball, considering it the origin of a Spanish nation.
Some Catalan nationalists claim that the War of Succession was a Catalan liberation conflict, or even that Cataloniaball lost its independence after the abolition of the Aragonese and Catalan institutions. This nationalist narrative of resistance to Castileball makes it seem that Catalonia was invaded by Spainball. Some Catalan pro-independence supporters claim that the Principality of Cataloniaball had enough independence within the Crown of Aragonball to support the current independence of Cataloniaball, a debatable issue. Spanish nationalists accuse these accounts of Catalan nationalism as false. The idea that there was a medieval and independent Catalan Kingdom that ended up being conquered and hidden by Spainball is a romanticist and Catalan nationalist vision that some Catalan independence supporters hold.
September 11, 1714, the day on which the Bourbon troops took Barcelonaball, is celebrated by Catalan independence supporters as a memory of resistance and is also Cataloniaball's national day.
Over the years, the Carlists, who advocated the return of the fueros and previous institutions, gained popularity in Cataloniaball and Aragonball, despite being a Spanish monarchist and conservative movement.
Today it is common to find the term "Corona catalanoaragonesa" instead of "Corona d'Aragó" in part of Catalan public education and Catalan historiography, a term used by Catalan nationalists to give more emphasis to Cataloniaball during the Middle Ages. This term is criticized by much of Spanish historiography as a contemporary term that was never used at the time.
==Subdivisions==
===Kingdoms===
* Aragonball
*Mallorcaball
* Naplesball
* Sardiniaball
* Sicilyball
* Valenciaball
===Principalities===
* Andorraball
* Cataloniaball
===Counties===
*Gévaudanball
* Provenceball
==How to draw==
Draw Crown of Aragonball is simple:
# Divide the basic circle shape into nine horizontal stripes, five in yellow and four in red
# Draw the eyes and a (optional) crown over and you've finished.
==Gallery==
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