Balearic Islands

The Balearic Islands (in Castilian Islas Balearic Islands , in Catalan the illes Balears/the illes Balears I Pitiüses/Illes , officially Illes Balears ) are a autonomous community of the Spain. It is about a Archipel located in Mediterranean which includes/understands 5 island S principal: Majorque (Mallorca), Minorque (Menorca), Ibiza (Eivissa), Formentera and Will pull up like some small islands.

The Catalan is the Co-official language with the Castillan, the local alternative of the Catalan being the Baléare.

Geography

The Balearic Islands are divided into 5 principal islands:

The other islands, of less important surface, are Dragonera, Conejera and Espalmador.

History

The Balearic Islands were controlled by the Carthaginois before passing under the domination Romaine. The critical of the Balearic Islands represented a unit famous and frequently employed Antiquity. To the the Middle Ages, the Balearic Islands were annexed to the Couronne of Aragon within the framework of the Reconquista between 1229 (unloading of the king Jacques I {{er}} in Majorque) and 1287 (taken of Minorque by the king Pierre III of Aragon). There existed between 1276 and 1344 a Royaume of independent Majorque, with the hands of a branch junior by the kings d' Aragon, which was annexed by the Couronne of Aragon. The Balearic Islands form a group of islands of the Mediterranean in the east of the Spanish coasts, with the height of Valence. The group consists of eleven small islands and the four large following islands: Majorque, Minorque, Ibiza and Formentera. The archipelago is located at 88 km of the point moreover nearer to the Iberian peninsula. The only island of Majorque, with 3640 km ², covers almost 75% of wide of the archipelago, because Minorque counts only 695 km ², Ibiza counts 570 km ², and Formentera counts 81 km ². Since 1978, this whole of islands forms an autonomous community with a population of 796.483 inhabitants (1998). The capital, Palma de Majorque, are located on largest of the islands, i.e. Majorque. At the linguistics plan, the Balearic Islands are located in the Catalan surface, together with the areas of Valence (Valencian Country) and Barcelona (Catalonia).

Economy

The archipelago of the Balearic Islands accommodates each year approximately ten million tourists, including German 20%. The latter invest in second home which becomes then places of retreat for a part of them.

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