Tamarite de Litera or Tamarit de Llitera (təməˈɾid də ʎiˈteɾə, tamaˈɾid de ʎiˈteɾa)
is the first major town of the comarca of La Litera/La Llitera in the province of Huesca

Huesca (province)

Huesca , officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon. The capital is Huesca.Positioned just south of the central Pyrenees, Huesca borders France and the French Departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées...

, Aragon

Aragon

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, Spain

Spain

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It was reconquered from the Moors

Moors

The description Moors has referred to several historic and modern populations of the Maghreb region who are predominately of Berber and Arab descent. They came to conquer and rule the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 800 years. At that time they were Muslim, although earlier the people had followed...

 by Alfonso I of Aragon in 1107.

The local dialect is a variant of Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

, called Tamarità (Spanish: Tamaritano) by locals.

It has two official names: Tamarite de Litera and Tamarit de Llitera