People waving red and yellow striped Catalan flags for Catalan National Day on September 11, 2012, Barcelona, Spain. The severity of the worst economic crisis has fuelled separatism and highlighted fractures between Spain's northeast and the central government in Madrid. National Day, or Diada, in fact, marks the defeat of Catalan forces on September 11, 1714, at the hands of Philip V of Spain after a 13-month siege of Barcelona. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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