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After the [[War of the Spanish Succession]], rooted in the political position of the [[Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares|Count-Duke of Olivares]] and the absolutism of [[Philip V of Spain|Philip V]], the assimilation of the [[Crown of Aragon]] by the [[Crown of Castile|Castilian Crown]] through the [[Nueva Planta decrees|Decrees of NovaNueva plantaPlanta]] was the first step in the creation of the Spanish nation-state. As in other contemporary European states, political union was the first step in the creation of the Spanish nation-state, in this case not on a uniform [[Ethnic group|ethnic]] basis, but through the imposition of the political and cultural characteristics of the dominant ethnic group, in this case the Castilians, over those of other ethnic groups, who became [[Minority group|national minorities]] to be assimilated.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sales Vives |first=Pere |date=22 September 2020 |publisher=El Gall editor |isbn=9788416416707 |language=ca |pages=422 |title=L'Espanyolització de Mallorca: 1808-1932 |trans-title=The Spanishization of Mallorca: 1808-1932}}</ref><ref>Antoni Simon, [http://roderic.uv.es/handle/10550/34591 Els orígens històrics de l'anticatalanisme], páginas 45-46, L'Espill, nº 24, Universitat de València</ref> In fact, since the political unification of 1714, Spanish assimilation policies towards [[Catalan Countries|Catalan-speaking territories]] ([[Catalonia]], [[Valencian Community|Valencia]], the [[Balearic Islands]], part of [[Aragon]]) and other national minorities, as [[Basques]] and [[Galicians]], have been a historical constant.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mayans Balcells |edition=del 1979|isbn=978-84-947201-4-7 |language=ca |first=Pere |pages=230 |title=Cròniques Negres del Català A L'Escola |trans-title=Black Chronicles of Catalan at School |year=2019|publisher=Edicions del 1979 }}</ref><ref name="Recopilació d'accions genocides con">{{cite book |last=Lluís |publisher=Base |isbn=9788418434983 |language=ca |first=García Sevilla |pages=300 |title=Recopilació d'accions genocides contra la nació catalana |trans-title=Compilation of genocidal actions against the Catalan nation |year=2021}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{cite book |last=Bea Seguí |publisher=Cossetània |isbn=9788490341339 |language=ca |first=Ignaci |pages=216 |title=En cristiano! Policia i Guàrdia Civil contra la llengua catalana |trans-title=In Christian! Police and Civil Guard against the Catalan language |year=2013}}</ref><ref name="galeusca2">{{cite web |archive-date=19 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719071429/http://www.escriptors.cat/pagina.php?id_text=1788 |access-date=2 August 2008 |title=Enllaç al Manifest Galeusca on en l'article 3 es denuncia l'asimetria entre el castellà i les altres llengües de l'Estat Espanyol, inclosa el català. |language=ca |trans-title=The link to the Galeusca Manifest in article 3 denounces the asymmetry between Spanish and the other languages of the Estat Espanyol, including Catalan. |url=http://www.escriptors.cat/pagina.php?id_text=1788}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Radatz |first=Hans-Ingo |date=8 October 2020 |title=Spain in the 19th century: Spanish Nation Building and Catalonia's attempt at becoming an Iberian Prussia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344608600}}</ref>