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==== Spain ==== {{main|Ethnic groups in Spain|Nationalisms and regionalisms of Spain}} [[File:Spanish dialects in Spain-en.png|thumb|right|250px|Languages and dialects in Spain]] Definitions of ethnicity and nationality in [[Spain]] are politically fraught, particularly since the transition from [[Francoist Spain]] to the (restored) Kingdom of Spain in the 1970s, when local regionalisms and peripheral nationalisms became a major part of national politics. The term [[Spanish people]] (Spanish: ''pueblo español'') is defined in the [[Spanish Constitution of 1978]] as the political sovereign, i.e., the citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. The same constitution, in its preamble, speaks of "peoples and nationalities of Spain" (''pueblos y nacionalidades de España'') and their respective cultures, traditions, languages, and institutions. The ''CIA World Factbook'' (2011) describes Spain's ethnic makeup as a "composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types", instead of the usual breakdown of ethnic composition. This reflects the formation of the modern Kingdom of Spain by the accretion of numerous independent [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberian]] realms: [[Andalusia]], [[Aragon]], [[Asturias]], [[Castile (historical region)|Castile]], [[Catalonia]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], [[Kingdom of León|León]], [[Majorca]], [[Navarre]], and [[Valencian Community|Valencia]]. Thus, today's Spaniards include [[Andalusians]], [[Aragonese people|Aragonese]], [[Asturians]], [[Basques]], [[Cantabrian people|Cantabrians]], [[Castilians]], [[Catalan people|Catalans]], [[Galicians]], [[Leonese people|Leonese]], and [[Valencian people|Valencians]], and individual members of these groups may or may not consider them distinct nations.
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