Eastern Iberian Peninsula

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The Eastern Iberian Peninsula is the Mediterranean-facing region of what is now eastern Spain, historically shaped by the Crown of Aragon’s political, cultural, and maritime dominance.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
eastern Iberian Peninsula 2
Eastern Iberian Peninsula canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
historical region
borderedBy Balearic Sea
Pyrenees
central Iberian plateau
climateType Mediterranean climate
containsMountainRange Catalan Coastal Range
containsRiver Ebro River
Júcar River
Segura River
Turia River
hasCoastOn Mediterranean Sea
hasMajorUrbanArea Barcelona metropolitan area
Valencia metropolitan area
linked to: Valencia

Zaragoza metropolitan area
linked to: Zaragoza
historicalCulturalSphere Aragonese-speaking territories
Catalan-speaking territories
historicalEconomicActivity fishing
maritime trade
olive cultivation
viticulture
historicalLanguageRegionOf Aragonese language
Catalan language
linked to: Catalan

Valencian language
linked to: Catalan
historicallyDominatedBy Crown of Aragon
historicallyInfluencedBy Al-Andalus
linked to: Andalusia

Crown of Castile
Roman Empire
historicallyLinkedTo Balearic Islands
Sardinia
Sicily
historicalPeriodOfAragoneseDominance Early modern period
linked to: Early Modern period

Middle Ages
historicalRole core maritime zone of the Crown of Aragon
gateway between Iberia and the western Mediterranean
includesPartOf Aragon
Catalonia
Region of Murcia
linked to: Province of Murcia

Valencian Community
locatedIn Iberian Peninsula
Spain
majorPortCity Alicante
Barcelona
Tarragona
Valencia
maritimeOrientation Mediterranean
modernStateSubdivisionContext autonomous communities of Spain
partOf western Mediterranean basin

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kingdom of Aragon influencedRegion Eastern Iberian Peninsula
Valentia Edetanorum locatedIn eastern Iberian Peninsula
linked to: Eastern Iberian Peninsula
Teruel province locatedIn eastern Iberian Peninsula
linked to: Eastern Iberian Peninsula