Catalan Republic

Catalan Republic / Catalan State
República Catalana / Estat Català
1641 1873 1931 1934
Flag Coat of arms
Map of Europe with the Catalan Republic (c. 1641) by Willem Blaeu.
Capital		Barcelona
Languages		Catalan
Government		Republic
President
•	1641	Pau Claris i Casademunt
•	1873	Baldomer Lostau i Prats
•	1931	Francesc Macià i Llussà
•	1934	Lluís Companys i Jover
Legislature		General Estates (1641) Parliament (1934)
History
•	Proclaimed (most recently)	October 6, 1934
•	Disestablished (most recently)	October 7, 1934
Preceded by Succeeded by Principality of Catalonia First Spanish Republic Kingdom of Spain Second Spanish Republic Kingdom of France First Spanish Republic Second Spanish Republic Second Spanish Republic
Today part of		France  Spain  ∟  Catalonia

The Catalan Republic (Catalan: República Catalana, IPA: [rəˈpubːlikə kətəˈlanə]) is one of the terms adopted by Catalonia when it declares itself as a sovereign political subject. The constitution of a Catalan State is currently the aim of a broad-based grassroots movement for Catalan independence.

A Catalan Republic, also known as the Catalan State (Estat Català, IPA: [əsˈtat kətəˈla]), has so far been proclaimed four times:

Of these four proclamations, the first (1641) was performed with the objective to establish the complete independence and the rest (1873, 1931 and 1934) to establish the sovereignty and the state character of Catalonia inside an Iberian or Spanish Federal Republic.

In November 2015, the Catalan parliament adopted a declaration of intent to form a new independent republic no later than 2017.

During the Catalan Revolt started in 1640, on 17 January of 1641, Pau Claris, president of the Deputation of the General (or Generalitat) of Catalonia proclaimed, according with the General Estates of Catalonia, the Catalan Republic under French protection for the first time. A week later, following the intervention of Philip IV of Spain, who entered in Catalonia with his army in order to suppress the revolt, Pau Claris appealed on 23 January to Louis XIII of France and recognized him as Count of Barcelona (the title having been transmitted to his heir Louis XIV until 1652) and places the Principality of Catalonia under French sovereignty.