Barcelona

Barcelona (Spanish and Catalan: Barcelona) Spanish city located in the northeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean coast between the rivers Llobregat and Estuarine Bezios. 160 km away from the Pyrenees is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, the capital of Catalonia and the province of Barcelona. A population of about 1,615,448 people while the population of the city suburbs Viady four million people. Which held the Olympics in 1992.

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History 
Some legends say that (Hamlessar Parsa) and Hannibal's father founded the city of Barcelona in Barcelona where there are today, but this is not regarded as historically Sticky just a myth. In the fifth century BC, the Romans took the fortress of the region or the camps of the armies of the state. In the early fifth century AD, took control of the region, the Visigoths immigrants to the Iberian Peninsula and then Saracens in the eighth century, however, Lewis Ben Charlemagne was able to City opens in 801 and remained Barcelona under Christian rule until 985, when opened again Muslim leader Almanzor Mansour was recoverable by the Iberians rulers of Catalonia in 1137 AD. 
Barcelona rulers after the Islamic period worked to expand the County of Barcelona recover neighboring regions of Andalusia, the Balearic Islands and the city of Valencia and founded what is known as the Kingdom of Aragon, which seized control of large parts of the Mediterranean lands during the third century AD, and arrived to cities in the latest Kothena. 
The city was destroyed during the reign of the Spanish war in 1714. Since King Philip V of Spain demolished neighborhood merchants in the city to build a military base as part of the punishment of the city, which erupted against his rule. Prevent speak Catalan and prevent the teaching in the university, which opened in 1450. 
City followed the French empire during the reign of Napoleon after the French occupied Spain and brother of Napoleon put Joseph Bonaparte, the ruler of the occupied parts. Spanish territories liberated areas after the fall of Napoleon. 
During the nineteenth century, the city grew during the period of the industrial revolution, as has been the center of many commercial industries. During that period when Madrid weakened the authority of the city of Barcelona, the city's population to demolish the fence built in the Middle Ages as well as the fort was converted into a public Alribeira garden.

Population 
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain in terms of population. Of about 1.6 million people, mostly from Spain and Catalonia and the rest from other regions and immigrants about 230,000 people, mostly from Latin America: Ecuador, Argentina and Colombia; and Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Romania and the African countries of Morocco, Algeria, Senegal and other countries by less like Pakistan. 

Population density 
Note: This statistic is based on the statistical data provided by the hall of the Municipal Council of the city of Barcelona. 
Barcelona is one of the most densely populated cities in Europe, the municipal council of Barcelona statistical calculated for the year the city's population in 2008, estimated at 1,628,090 people living within the municipality announced limits on the 102.2 km 2 area. With an average population density of 15.926 per square kilometer. 
There are 73 district in the city, had 45 of them up neighborhood population density above 20,000 inhabitants per square kilometer. Where a combined population of about 1,313,424 inhabitants living on 38.6 square kilometers. In density rate up to 33.987 inhabitants per square kilometer, and formed neighborhoods thirty most populous ratio up to 57.5% of the population of the city occupy only a total of 22.7% of the total area of ​​the municipal limits of the city or in other words, 936.406 people live in density averaging 40.322 inhabitants / km

Environment 
Barcelona is located on the northeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Mediterranean coast Almtost.aly plateau width of about 5 km (3 miles) is bordered on its part Kolsrola mountain range, and the Llobregat River from the south-west and north of the River Bazzouz. This plateau area of 170 km2 (66 sq mi), of which 101 square kilometers (38.9 sq mi) are occupied by the city itself. [1] and 160 km (100 miles) south of the Pyrenees and the borders of Catalonia with France. 

Climate 
Urban climate mild Kmnach Mediterranean cities. Rainfall is about 7,000 mm per year, most of them come down in the winter, the average temperature in the warm months a year (August / August) is 24 ° C, and the average temperature in the cold months of the year in January -4 degrees Celsius.

The Barcelona is the first major industrial cities, a commercial city and the important tourism center (where 17% of the workers in the city are interested in tourism and hospitality), and its banks Caixa Catalunya Bank and the Bank does not Kaiksaz. 

Education and culture 

This city contains important art center, which works by artists of different areas of senior Kpicasso and painter Miro and Dali. And also among the high schools and institutions of education from the University of Barcelona's oldest European universities and many other universities.