New Barcelona

New Barcelona was the name of a settlement of Catalan-Austrian exiles that existed between 1735 and 1738, created after his defeat in the War of Succession and located in the Banat of Temesvár, the current town of Zrenjanin, in the Serbian Vojvodina. The settlement was also known for Carlobagen.^[1]

The first group of exiles arrived in the autumn of 1735, and towards the Banat in 1737 there were about eight hundred exiles. Among them, the predominant group of Catalans, followed by other territories of the Crown of Aragon. Between 10 and 15% came from Sicily and Naples. Among the exiles, there were major figures of the war as the Germans Nebot, Francisco de Bac de Roda and Castellvi and Obando, among others.

The settlement failed because of the advanced age of the settlers, many of them veterans of the administration and the army. The climate of the Banat of continental, affected the economic viability of the project is to locate a city. The plague is present in Vojvodina in 1738, and the proximity of the Ottoman threat to the region, were other factors that led to the end of the colony. Since 1740, many exiles were already in cities Austria-Hungary, especially Budapest and Vienna.^[2]

While the Austrian exile left no legacy in the region, the son of an émigré, Francis Vilana-Pearls (son of the Marquis de Rialb, Ramon Vilana-Pearl), was governor of Temesvár from 1753 to 1759. According to Collin Thomas, his name would be the origin of the name of Perlez, a village in the municipality of Zrenjanin. [1]

References

1. ^ "Catalans in the world 13h Century AC - 21th Century AC". http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/culturacatalana/menuitem.be2bc4cc4c5aec88f94a9710b0c0e1a0/?vgnextoid=4a2a5c43da896210VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=4a2a5c43da896210VgnVCM1000000b0c1e0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=detall2&contentid=b1783c084ded7210VgnVCM1000008d0c1e0aRCRD&newLang=en_GB. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
2. ^ Alcoberro, Agustí (30 June 2009). "The War of the Spanish Succession in the Catalan-speaking Lands". Catalan Historical Review (Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans) 3: 69–86. doi:DOI: 10.2436/20.1000.01.40. ISSN 2013-407X. http://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/CHR/article/viewFile/37024/pdf_49. Retrieved 30 October 2011.