The Federal Tortosa Pact, or simply, Tortosa Pact , was an ideological manifest and organizational project from Republic

Republic

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an and Federal

Federation

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 forces of Aragon

Aragon

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, the Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands

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, Catalonia

Catalonia

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 and Valencia

Valencian Community

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, signed in Tortosa

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 on May 18, 1869. This may be regarded as a precedent of a Catalanist base movement, which some years later, Acció Catalanista and Estat Català

Estat Català

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 adopted from different perspectives.

When the First Spanish Republic

First Spanish Republic

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 was established (1873), there were different attempts in Barcelona

Barcelona

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 to proclaim a Catalan State within a Spanish Federal Republic.