spain in 1300

The Monarchies of Spain in 1300

Linguistically, Spain was an alliance of three major Romance languages [in the 1400s], Galician (gallego) in the west, Castilian (castellano) in the center, and Catalan (catala') in the east. Catalan is much more similar, as a language, to Occitan or Provenccal, as spoken in Southern France. It is possible to see the origins of the Spanish three in the different Germanic groups who control of Iberia in the fiftth century, the Suevi in the north-west, Visigoths in the centre and south, Alans in the east. (The name Catalan is etymologised as a version of 'Goth-Alan'). At any rate, Castile established iself as the most powerful state in the region, having absorbed the western kingdom (ruled from Leo'n) in 1230. Aragon, in parallel, had come to dominate the west, uniting a fairly equal partnership with Catalonia in 1140.

The linguistic effect of the union of Castile and Arago, with Aragon as junior partner, was to make Castilian the de jure standard for the whole of Spain[.]1

At no time does it appear that Eusakar, the Basque Kingdom, became part of the Castilian/Aragonese system.