Crown of Aragon

Crown of Aragon Corona d'Aragón  (Aragonese) Corona d'Aragó  (Catalan) Corona Aragonum  (Latin) Corona de Aragón  (Spanish) Aragoiko koroa  (Basque)
1162–1716
Standard Coat of arms
Territories subject to the Crown of Aragon in 1441
Status	Composite monarchy,[1] confederation of kingdoms,[2] or individual polities ruled by one king[3]
Capital	see Capital below
Common languages	Official languages: Aragonese, Catalan, Latin Minority languages: Occitan, Sardinian, Corsican, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Castilian, Basque, Greek, Maltese, Andalusian Arabic, Mozarabic
Religion	Majority religion: Roman Catholic Minority religions: Sunni Islam, Sephardic Judaism, Greek Orthodoxy
Government	Feudal monarchy subject to pacts
Monarch
• 1162–1164	Petronilla (first)
• 1479-1504 1479–1516	Isabella I and Ferdinand II
• 1700–1716	Charles III (last)
Legislature	Cortz d'Aragón Corts Catalanes Corts Valencianes
Historical era	Middle Ages / Early modern period
• Union of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Barcelona	1162
• Conquest of the Kingdom of Majorca	1231
• Conquest of the Kingdom of Valencia	1238–1245
• Conquest of the Kingdom of Sardinia	1324–1420
• Union of Ferdinand II and Isabella I	19 October 1469
• Conquest of the Kingdom of Naples	1501–1504
• Nueva Planta decrees	1716
Area
1443	250,000 km^2 (97,000 sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Aragon County of Barcelona Habsburg Spain
Today part of	Andorra  France  Greece  Italy  Malta  Spain  Tunisia

The Crown of Aragon was a joining of multiple titles and states in the hands of the King of the Crown of Aragon. In the 14th and 15th the land of Aragon covered most of present-day France and Spain. The political center was at Barcelona.

References

1. Albaladejo, Pablo Fernandez (2001). Los Borbones: dinastia y memoria de nacion en la Espana del siglo XVIII : actas del coloquio internacional celebrado en Madrid, mayo de 2000. Marcial Pons Historia. ISBN 978-84-95379-36-8.
2. Buffery, Helena; Marcer, Elisenda (2010). Historical Dictionary of the Catalans. Scarecrow Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-8108-7514-2.
3. Rodriguez, Jarbel (2007). Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon. CUA Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1475-7.