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FRANCE SPAIN %o 29 Oct r 7« 5 TUvcmSex f959 ancela tci, Sfr m The Carthaginian ciry of Barcino was founded about 230 B.C. Under the Romans the town became the capital of a district of the Tarragona province, and in 451 A.D., it was made a capital of the Visi- gothic Kings. The Moors held Barcelona only from 713 to the early part of the ninth centur) ' , and passed through all the vicissitudes of the struggle between the Franks and the Saracens. In 874, the Count Wilfred of Barcelona, obtained the privilege of declaring hereditary, the fiefs and benefices of the countries of the Spanish mark, and the city became the center of an independent territory. In 1137 the Count of Barcelona married the daughter of the ruler of Aragon, and the city became the capital of the kingdom of Aragon and Catalonia. During that period, the port became the great trading center of the region. The council of Jaime I of Catalonia promulgated in 1259 the earliest code of Euro- pean maritime laws which were taken as a model by other countries in the Mediterranean. The city lost some of its importance in 1492, when Aragon and Castile were incorporated, but the city was the scene where Ferdinand and Isabella received Columbus on his return from the West Indies in the summer of 1493. The decline of the city was caused by the edict of Isabella forbidding non-Castilians to trade with the New World, and it was not until 1778 that the Catalonians were allowed to resume free trade with the Americans. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the city was a frequent center of unrest against the central authority. In the 19th century extensive improvements were made to the port, and industrial- ization increased. The great International Exhibition was held in the city in 1929. The city is the center of the chief textile manufacturing region in Spain. We all remember the 50 degree rolls we experienced just before our arrival in Barcelona, where we moored near the replica of the Santa Maria. The change of com- mand ceremony of COMDESDIV 82 with Capt. J. C. Messer USN relieving Capt. W. J. Barry, USN took place here.
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