Editing Val d'Aran (section)

==History==
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In 1313, [[James II of Aragon]] granted administrative and political autonomy to the Aran Valley, the legal details of which are described in a [[Latin language|Latin]] manuscript called the [[Querimonia]]. The devolution of power was a reward for the Aranese pledging allegiance to James II in a dispute with the kingdoms of France and Mallorca over control of the valley.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Turell|editor-first1=M. Teresa|title=Multilingualism in Spain : sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of linguistic minority groups|date=2001|publisher=Multilingual Matters|location=Clevedon [u.a.]|isbn=9781853594915|page=142|edition=[Online-Ausg.].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=li0Fmtfxd6kC&q=querimonia+aran&pg=PA142|access-date=19 August 2015}}</ref> This status was suppressed in 1834, when the Valley was integrated into the new Province of Lleida, in the context of the establishment of the Spanish provinces at the beginning of the liberal state.

On 19 October 1944, [[Spanish Communist Party]] [[guerrilla warfare|guerrilla]]s [[Invasion of Val d'Aran|invaded the valley]] in an attempt to bring about the fall of the Spanish [[Francisco Franco|dictatorship]]. They took control of several villages until October 27, 1944, but were forced to retreat back into France after Franco sent reinforcements to defend Vielha.<ref name=elpais>{{cite web|last1=Rodríguez Marcos|first1=Javier|title=El valle de la libertad|url=http://elpais.com/diario/2010/08/15/eps/1281853616_850215.html|website=elpais.com|publisher=El Pais|access-date=18 August 2015|language=es}}</ref>

Before the construction of the [[Vielha tunnel]], opened in 1948, the Aran valley had no direct communication with the south side of the mountains during winter.

In 1987 it became an administrative comarca. In 1990 the special status of Aran within Catalonia was restored by the [[Parliament of Catalonia]], reestablishing the Conselh Generau, granting it a degree of home rule and declaring Occitan as official language. In 2015 the Catalan Parliament passed a new law which increased the powers of the Conselh Generau and recognized Aran as an "Occitan national reality".<ref name=RB>{{Cite book |last=Brandtjen |first=Roland |title=The valley and the rock: europeanized separatism and Iberian micro-nations: secession to gain full EU-Membership?: an analysis of Gibraltar and the Val d'Aran |date=2021 |publisher=Verlag Dr. Kovač |isbn=978-3-339-12272-8 |series=Schriftenreihe Schriften zur Europapolitik |location=Hamburg}}</ref>

The population of Val d'Aran has generally been opposed to the [[Catalan independence movement]] due to lack of a strong Catalan identity.<ref name=RB />