Geomorphologic map of Catalonia (The green Southern Zone extends 80 km further south into the Valencian community):
Pyrenees
Pre-Pyrenees
Catalan Central Depression
Smaller mountain ranges of the Central Depression
Catalan Transversal Range
Catalan Pre-Coastal Range
Catalan Coastal Range
Catalan Coastal Depression and other coastal and pre-coastal plains
The Catalan Mediterranean System, also known as Mediterranean System, Transversal Ibero-Pyrenaean System, and Catalanid System,[1] is a wide coastal geographical region in Catalonia. It is made up of a double system of coastal mountain chains: The Catalan Coastal Range and the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range, as well as the Catalan Coastal Depression and other coastal and pre-coastal plains located among those mountain ranges.
^Josep Guitart i Duran, Maria del Tura Bolòs et al. Història agrària dels Països Catalans (Volum 1) Antiguitat, 2005, ISBN 978-84-475-2895-0
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The CatalanMediterraneanSystem, also known as MediterraneanSystem, Transversal Ibero-Pyrenaean System, and Catalanid System, is a wide coastal geographical...
ranges running parallel to the Mediterranean Sea coast in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of the CatalanMediterraneanSystem. Its main axis runs between the...
Catalonia (Catalan Coastal Depression, with cities like Girona, Figueres and La Jonquera) and Western Catalonia (CatalanMediterraneanSystem; Lleida, Cervera...
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Castell (851 m) The Guilleries is one of the few places in the CatalanMediterraneanSystem where amphibolite facies conditions are found. The Pantà de Susqueda...
Pre-Coastal Range and the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the CatalanMediterraneanSystem. The Catalan Coastal Depression runs roughly in a NE-SW direction along...
above); The Catalan Coastal mountain ranges or the CatalanMediterraneanSystem: an alternating delevacions and planes parallel to the Mediterranean coast;...
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most common plant community around the Mediterranean. Mediterranean shrublands are known as màquia in Catalan, macchia in Italian, maquis in French, and...
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called: Basque: Fernanditz Castillan: Fernández Catalan: Ferrandis Portuguese and Galician: Fernandes This system was most common in, but not limited to, the...
but nevertheless outcrops through the Sistema Ibérico and the CatalanMediterraneanSystem.[citation needed] The Iberian Peninsula features one of the largest...
and Catalan was present all over the Mediterranean world. During this period, the Royal Chancery propagated a highly standardized language. Catalan was...
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"the smaller one". This was then hypercorrected to Mallorca by central Catalan scribes, which later came to be accepted as the standard spelling. The...
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