UNDERSTANDING THE PLACE OF CATALONIA AND CATALANS IN WORLD HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORICAL CAUSE-AND-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE LIGHT OF THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM WORLDS

Abstract In this article, the stages of development of the Catalan nation are considered in chronological order. The author derives a clear framework, each of which leads to changes in culture, linguistic change, and a change in the territorial boundaries of influence, which eventually lead to the definition of the concept of Catalonia and the Catalans.

Purpose. The article is aimed at studying the historical heritage of Catalonia to understand the formation of Catalan self-consciousness as a phenomenon in the process of world history.

Time frame: prehistory - XIII century

Geographical scope: the territory of Catalonia, the territories of France and Spain.