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- The Catalan national day, September 11. The Diada celebrates the historical development of the Catalan government, the Generalitat, which has been abolished and restored several times and is symbolic of Catalan nationalism. On this day senyeras, Catalan national flags, are flown from many houses and official buildings. Flowers are laid at the monument to Rafael de Casanovas, who died defending Catalan freedom against centralist Spain, and the national anthem of Catalonia, Els Segadors, is sung.
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- The name of a people who lived between the rivers Amazon and Plate, and their language.
The Guarani language is an official language in Paraguay. It is also spoken in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil. The Jesuit missionaries in Paraguay wrote Guarani dictionaries and grammars, hymns and catechisms. Guarani acquired a symbolic status in Paraguay during the Chaco War with Bolivia, 1932-35. Today many Paraguayans with hardly any indigenous blood speak Guarani better than Spanish.
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