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 Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
surface form: Barcelona metropolitan area

Valencia
surface form: Valencia metropolitan area

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

Catalan
surface form: Valencian language
historicallyDominatedBy Crown of Aragon
historicallyInfluencedBy Andalusia
surface form: Al-Andalus

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

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

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

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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
this entity surface form: eastern Iberian Peninsula
Teruel province locatedIn Eastern Iberian Peninsula
this entity surface form: eastern Iberian Peninsula