The conquest of the language

Jaime I of Aragon granted the conquest of Ibiza, as a donation feudal Montgrí of William, archbishop elect of Tarragona, which was later associated in the company of Pedro Infante and Nuño Sans Portugal, Count of Roussillon. On August 8th of 1235 the city of Ibiza was rendered by the Catalan conquest. According to tradition, with some documentary basis, the walled town of Ibiza was taken through the treachery of the Muslim sheikh's brother, in revenge after he seized his wife, the husband cheated clearing the entrance to the forces conquerors by a passage secret. Since then, the popular language of the island, although no culture is Catalan, with notable dialectal peculiarities that distinguish not only the language but also of continental varieties subdialectales of Majorca and Menorca.