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Corts of Cervera and the Diputació del General

Cervera, Segarra, Lleida

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Corts of Cervera and the Diputació del General

Historical milestone · Cervera, Segarra, Lleida

Image of Cervera, not of the place itself.

In 1359 Pere III convened the Corts in Cervera to finance the war against Castile. From that assembly came the Diputació del General, the permanent body that collected the levies and that is the origin of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

1359

Photo: jordi domènech (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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