ETHNIC GROUPS IN SPAIN

Source: http://homonyme.eu/Eng_1)_The_phonemes.html Katarzyna Małusecka

Spain – one of the biggest European countries inhabited by almost 40 000 000

people.

The Spanish people are a nation and ethnic group native to Spain that share a common Spanish culture and speak the Spanish language (this is official language of Spain).

Ethnic groups in Spain:

 Castilian people - 72,3%Catalans – 16,3%Galicians – 8,1%Basques – 2,3%

Source: http://www.bryk.pl/wypracowania/geografia/geografia_spo%C5%82eczno_ekonomiczna/19666-mniejszo%C5%9Bci_narodowe_w_hiszpanii_baskowie_i_katalo%C5%84czycy.html

The Castilian people are certain inhabitants in regions of central Spain who are the source of the Spanish language (Castilian) include other aspects of cultural identity.

Castalian

Source: http://justadream.blox.pl/2011/02/Hiszpania.html

The Catalans are an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia, who form a historic nationality chiefly located in northern Spain.

Catalans

Source: http://www.bigcheesebadges.com/catalonia-catalan-region-flag-25mm-pin-button-badge-p-1893.html

What differ them from Castalian is culture, customs and language. For a short time it was even separate republic (1934-1939). In 1977,

gain considerable autonomy. Therefore, Barcelona is considered to be the capitalof Catalans. Representatives of the Government of Catalonia take great care

to ensure greater rights for their region. Unlike Basque, aspire to independence without violence, assassinations and killings.

Source: http://wyborcza.biz/Waluty/1,111132,12527152,Katalonia_wsciekla_na_Madryt__Czy_z_powodu_kryzysu.html

Galicians are a national and cultural group whose historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.Two Romance languages are spoken and official in Galicia: the native Galician, and Castilian.Many Galician surnames have become Castilianized over the centuries, especially after the forced submission of the Galician nobility obtained by the Catholic Monarchs in the last years of the 15th century.  This reflected the gradual spread of Spanish language, through the cities, in Santiago de Compostela, Vigo, Ferrol, A Coruña and Lugo.

Galicians

Source: http://dibujoheraldico.blogspot.com/2012/04/escudo-de-galicia.html

Basque

Source: http://www.madaboutflags.co.uk/basque-flag-25mm-pin-button-badge-12194-p.asp

The Basques are an aboriginal ethnic group who primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.

Basques speak their own language and have a very developed independence movements.Since then, despite the current limited self-governing status of the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre as settled by the Spanish Constitution, a significant part of Basque society has attempted higher degrees of self-empowerment (see Basque nationalism), sometimes by acts of violence.

Source: https://iuwest.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/eta-lays-down-arms

Euskadi Ta Askatasuna

"Basque Homeland and Freedom"

Is the most famous armed Basque nationalist and separatist

organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with

the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country.