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Part of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Principality of Catalonia![]() |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Francesc de Tamarit Josep Margarit ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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The Reapers' War (Catalan: Guerra dels Segadors, Eastern Catalan: [ˈɡɛrə ðəls səɣəˈðos]; Spanish: Guerra de los Segadores, French: Guerre des faucheurs), also known as the Catalan Revolt or Catalan Revolution, was a conflict that affected the Principality of Catalonia between 1640 and 1659, in the context of the Franco-Spanish War of 1635-1659. Being the result of a revolutionary process carried out by Catalan peasantry and institutions, as well as French diplomatic movements, it saw the brief establisment of a Catalan Republic and the clash of Hasbsburg and Bourbon armies on Catalan soil over more than a decade.
It had an enduring effect in the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), which ceded the County of Roussillon and the northern half of the County of Cerdanya to France (see French Cerdagne), splitting these northern Catalan territories off from the Principality of Catalonia, and thereby receding the borders of Spain to the Pyrenees.
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