{"id":2972,"date":"2010-06-06T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/catalonia-and-catalan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:32:02","slug":"catalonia-and-catalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/catalonia-and-catalan\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalonia and Catalan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C<\/strong><strong>atalonia<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong><strong> C<\/strong><strong>atalan <\/strong>have been proposed as having a possible etymological link with Atlantis [C<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Catalonia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45750\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Catalonia-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Catalonia-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Catalonia-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Catalonia-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Catalonia-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Catalonia.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(atalon)ia, C(atalan)]. Although, this suggestion might appear attractive at first sight it is tenuous at best.<\/p>\n<p>\u00dclk\u00fc Aytan has proposed that <em>&#8220;the Catalans are the continuation of Atlantis&#8221;<\/em> <sup>(a)<\/sup>. In a brief 2020 document she has specified a region in the Mediterranean, between Spain and the islands of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sardinia-amended\/\">Sardinia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/corsica\/\">Corsica<\/a> as the location of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=Atlantis\">https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=Atlantis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also see: <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/andalusia\/\">Andalusia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalonia and Catalan have been proposed as having a possible etymological link with Atlantis [C(atalon)ia, C(atalan)]. Although, this suggestion might appear attractive at first sight it is tenuous at best. \u00dclk\u00fc Aytan has proposed that &#8220;the Catalans are the continuation of Atlantis&#8221; (a). In a brief 2020 document she has specified a region in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6423,6178,1756,100,666,6424],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catalan","tag-catalonia","tag-corsica","tag-sardinia","tag-spain","tag-ulku-aytan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65965,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/65965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}