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▲[[Berkas:Escudo Corona de Aragon y Sicilia.png|thumb|left|175px|Lambang Raja Aragon pada abad ke-15]]
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'''Takhta Aragon''' atau '''Kekaisaran Aragon''' adalah pemerintahan dari suatu bagian besar dari apa yang dikenal sekarang sebagai [[Spanyol]], ditambah sejumlah wilayah kekuasaan di [[Mediterania]], sepanjang sebagian besar dari [[Abad Pertengahan]] yang belakangan. Pemerintahan ini dimulai pada [[1035]], sebagai [[Kerajaan Aragon]], yang terdiri dari wilayah yang masih dikenal sebagai [[Aragon]]. Pada 1137, pernikahan antara [[Ramon Berenguer IV]], Bupati [[Barcelona]] dengan [[Petronila dari Aragon]], mempersatukan Kabupaten Barcelona dan wilayah [[Catalonia]] dengan Kerajaan Aragon di bawah nama "Takhta Aragon". Takhta Aragon belakangan mencakup [[Negeri Valencia|Valencia]], [[Kepulauan Balearic]], [[Sicilia]] dan [[Sardinia]], dan setidak-tidaknya untuk sementara waktu, [[Provence]] dan [[Napoli]]. Pada [[1479]] pernikahan antara [[Ferdinand II dari Aragon]] dengan [[Isabella I dari Castilia]] mempersatukan kedua dinasti mereka.
[[Kategori:Sejarah Spanyol]]
<!--During most of this time, the Crown of Aragon united two or even three separate kingdoms; the scope of this article is the empire that effectively resulted from that dynastic union, rather than with these kingdoms individually.
The economic centre of this empire was [[Barcelona]], since it was a seaport located near the geographical center of the Crown, and also one of the political centers of the Crown, with its [[Consell de Cent]] ruling according to the laws of Catalonia. [[Zaragoza]] was another political center, where kings were crown in the Seo Cathedral. Other important seaports were [[Valencia]] and [[Palma de Mallorca]].
The Crown of Aragon was in many ways a Mediterranean Empire, ruling the Mediterranean Sea and [[thalassocracy|setting rules for the entire sea]] (for instance, in the ''[[Consulate of the Sea|Llibre del Consolat del Mar]]'', a compilation of [[maritime law]] in [[Catalan language|Catalan]]).
Some present-day historians (and [[Catalan nationalism|Catalan nationalists]]) may call the Crown the '''Catalan-Aragonese Confederation''', but its most usual name is "Crown of Aragon".
== Context ==
The countries that we now know as Spain and [[Portugal]] spent the [[Middle Ages]] after [[722]] in an intermittent struggle called the ''[[Reconquista]]''. This struggle pitted the northern Christian kingdoms against the [[taifa|Islamic kingdoms]] of the South and among themselves.
In the Late Middle Ages, the Aragonese expansion southwards met with the [[Castile|Castilian]] advance northward in the region of [[Murcia (province)|Murcia]]. Afterward, the Aragonese empire focused in the [[Mediterranean]], acting as far as [[Greece]] and [[Barbary]], whereas [[Portugal]], which completed its ''Reconquista'' in [[1272]], focused in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. Aragonese mercenaries known as ''[[almogavars|almogàvers]]'' participated in the creation of this Mediterranean empire, and later found employ in countries all across southern Europe.
== History ==
[[Berkas:Aragonese Empire.PNG|thumb|left|250px|The maximum extent of the Aragonese Empire.]]
The union of the two territories of [[Catalonia]] and Aragon was caused by the marriage of [[Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona]] and [[Petronila of Aragon]], later Queen Regnant of Aragon. This merged the [[County]] of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon under the name of "Crown of Aragon". Their son, [[Alfonso II of Aragon|Alfonso II]], inherited both titles. This union was made while respecting the existing institutions of both places. This situation was mostly maintained until the abolition of the Crown of Aragon early in the [[18th century]].
King [[James I of Aragon|James I]] ([[13th century]]) conquered new territories and incorporated [[Majorca]] and the region of Valencia to the state. Valencia was made a new kingdom with its own institutions, and so the third member of the confederation. Majorca, together with the counties of [[Cerdanya]] and [[Roussillon]] and the city of [[Montpellier]], were given to his son [[James II of Majorca|James]] and were named [[Kingdom of Majorca]], but these territories were reincorporated later, in [[1349]].
Expansion through the Mediterranean continued ([[Sicily]], [[Minorca]], [[Sardinia]]). In [[1410]], King [[Martin I of Aragon|Martin I]] died without surviving descendants. As a result, by the [[Pact of Caspe]], [[Ferdinand of Antequera]] from the Castilian dynasty of [[Trastamara]], received the Crown of Aragon.
[[Berkas:Palau_dels_Reis_de_Mallorca_a_Perpinya.jpg|thumb|280px|right|[[Majorca Kings Palace]] at [[Perpinyà]]]]
In [[1443]], [[Naples]] was conquered. Later, King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] recovered the northern Catalan counties, as well as Iberian [[Navarre]], and married Queen [[Isabella I of Castile]] in [[1479]]. However, [[Castile]] and the Crown of Aragon remained different states, each keeping its own institutions and laws.
The Crown of Aragon was abolished during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]] ([[1702]]–[[1713]]) by the [[Decretos de Nueva Planta]], and all its lands were incorporated, as provinces, into Spanish administration.
== See also ==
*[[Black Legend]]
*[[Catalan Company]]
*[[Catalan Countries]]
*[[House of Barcelona]]
*[[Compromise of Caspe]]
*[[Kings of Spain family tree]]
*[[List of Aragonese monarchs]]
*[[List of Counts of Barcelona]]
*[[Naples]]
*[[Palermo]]
*[[Sicilian Vespers]]
*[[Sicily]]
*[[Spanish Empire]]
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