FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?

Presently in collective consciousness there was a steady perception of Spain as the safe state entering into group of the countries, being a support of the European integration. The impression was made that Spain, despite difficulties of its historical development, at last found the national identit...

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Main Author: A. A. Orlov
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Language:English
Published: MGIMO University Press 2013-08-01
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Online Access:https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1294
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description Presently in collective consciousness there was a steady perception of Spain as the safe state entering into group of the countries, being a support of the European integration. The impression was made that Spain, despite difficulties of its historical development, at last found the national identity, having created from regions and national lands making it the new multicultural community fastened in a whole by a tolerant, educated and authoritative monarchy. However the world economic crisis which has begun in 2008 destroyed the Spanish idyll, having aggravated old and having generated new contradictions. Traditionally painful problem for Spain was existence of centrifugal tendencies at the heart of which two main reasons lay: manifestations of the nationalism peculiar to those areas where Catalan, Basque and Galician nationalities historically lived, and a regionalism caused by aspiration of local elite to bigger distance from Madrid. Considering features of pre-Roman history of Spain, the author seeks to understand, whether sources of modern separatism can originate in an extreme antiquity. Following the results of research the conclusion is drawn that most boldly "link of times" is traced on the example of Basques, the part of which intellectual elite seeks to use features of origin and historical development of these people for a reinforcement of current nationalist and separatist trends. The author considers that the history has to serve as the bridge between the people, instead of put up between them a new wall.
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spelling doaj.art-76b8d0e3282a444b8875ad06b304ee0b2024-02-07T10:17:02ZengMGIMO University PressVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta2071-81602541-90992013-08-0104(31)17718610.24833/2071-8160-2013-4-31-177-1861040FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?A. A. Orlov0Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), 76, Prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow, 119454, Russia.Presently in collective consciousness there was a steady perception of Spain as the safe state entering into group of the countries, being a support of the European integration. The impression was made that Spain, despite difficulties of its historical development, at last found the national identity, having created from regions and national lands making it the new multicultural community fastened in a whole by a tolerant, educated and authoritative monarchy. However the world economic crisis which has begun in 2008 destroyed the Spanish idyll, having aggravated old and having generated new contradictions. Traditionally painful problem for Spain was existence of centrifugal tendencies at the heart of which two main reasons lay: manifestations of the nationalism peculiar to those areas where Catalan, Basque and Galician nationalities historically lived, and a regionalism caused by aspiration of local elite to bigger distance from Madrid. Considering features of pre-Roman history of Spain, the author seeks to understand, whether sources of modern separatism can originate in an extreme antiquity. Following the results of research the conclusion is drawn that most boldly "link of times" is traced on the example of Basques, the part of which intellectual elite seeks to use features of origin and historical development of these people for a reinforcement of current nationalist and separatist trends. The author considers that the history has to serve as the bridge between the people, instead of put up between them a new wall.https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1294spainiberiaiberiansceltsceltiberiansphoeniciansgreeksindo-european tribesbasquestartessgadescarthagoromeatlantisnationalismseparatismregionalismbasque countrycataloniaandalusia
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FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
spain
iberia
iberians
celts
celtiberians
phoenicians
greeks
indo-european tribes
basques
tartess
gades
carthago
rome
atlantis
nationalism
separatism
regionalism
basque country
catalonia
andalusia
title FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?
title_full FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?
title_fullStr FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?
title_full_unstemmed FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?
title_short FEATURES OF PRE-ROMAN HISTORY OF SPAIN AND MODERN TIME: WHERE ARE SOURCES OF SEPARATISM?
title_sort features of pre roman history of spain and modern time where are sources of separatism
topic spain
iberia
iberians
celts
celtiberians
phoenicians
greeks
indo-european tribes
basques
tartess
gades
carthago
rome
atlantis
nationalism
separatism
regionalism
basque country
catalonia
andalusia
url https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1294
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