Kingdom of Aragon

Kingdom of Aragon
Reino d'Aragón (Aragonese) Regne d'Aragó (Catalan) Regnum Aragonum (Latin) Reino de Aragón (Spanish)
1035–1706
In red, the modern territory of Aragon within Spain
Capital		Jaca, Huesca, Zaragoza (in chronological order)
Languages		Aragonese, Catalan, Castilian, Latin, Mozarabic
Religion		Roman Catholicism
Government		Feudal monarchy
Legislature		Cortes of Aragon
Historical era		Medieval / Early Modern
•	County of Aragon established as independent kingdom	1035
•	Nueva Planta decrees dissolved Aragonese institutions in 1707	1706
Preceded by Succeeded by County of Aragon Enlightenment in Spain
Today part of		Spain

The Kingdom of Aragon (Aragonese: Reino d'Aragón, Catalan: Regne d'Aragó, Latin: Regnum Aragonum, Spanish: Reino de Aragón) was a medieval and early modern kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain. It should not be confused with the larger Crown of Aragon, that also included other territories — the Principality of Catalonia (which included the County of Barcelona and the other Catalan Counties), the Kingdom of Valencia, the Kingdom of Majorca, and other possessions that are now part of France, Italy, and Greece — that were also under the rule of the King of Aragon, but were administered separately from the Kingdom of Aragon.

Aragon was originally a Carolingian feudal county around the city of Jaca, which in the first half of the 9th century became a vassal state of the kingdom of Pamplona (later Navarre), its own dynasty of counts ending without male heir in 922. The name Aragón is the same as that of the river Aragón, which flows by Jaca. It might derive from the Basque Aragona/Haragona meaning "good upper valley" ("haran+goi+ona", where "haran" = valley, "goi"= upper, high, and "ona"= good). Alternatively, the name may be derived from the earlier Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis.