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Castile and León [a] is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983 by the merging of the provinces of the historic region of León: León, Zamora and Salamanca with those of Old Castile ( Castilla la Vieja ): Ávila, Burgos, Palencia, Segovia, Soria and Valladolid. The provinces of Santander and Logroño, which until ...
The Junta of Castile and León ( Spanish: Junta de Castilla y León; JCyL) is the governing and administrative body of the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León and serves as the executive branch and regulatory authority. [1] It comprises the President of the Junta, the vice-presidents and the ministers ( consejeros ).
Fray Luis de León 's classroom. The University of Salamanca ( Spanish: Universidad de Salamanca) is a Spanish public research university, located in Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It was founded in 1218 by King Alfonso IX. It is the oldest university in the Hispanic world and one of the oldest in the world in ...
The Kingdom of Castile ( / kæˈstiːl /; Spanish: Reino de Castilla: Latin: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. It traces its origins to the 9th-century County of Castile ( Spanish: Condado de Castilla, Latin: Comitatus Castellæ ), as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of Asturias.
Valladolid. / 41.65278°N 4.72361°W / 41.65278; -4.72361. Valladolid ( Spanish: [baʎaðoˈlið] ⓘ) is a municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province of Valladolid. It has a population of 295,639 people (2022 est.).
IE University, known as IE Universidad or Universidad Instituto de Empresa, is a private university with campuses in Madrid, Community of Madrid and Segovia, Castile and León, ( Spain) that formed as an outgrowth of IE Business School originally founded as the Instituto de Empresa (IE). IE University's programs are run in English and Spanish ...
The Cortes of Castile and León (Spanish: Cortes de Castilla y León) is the elected unicameral legislature of the Autonomous Community of Castile and León . The exterior of the new Cortes building, opened in 2007, in Valladolid. The tradition of the regional Cortes is traced back to the Royal Council (Latin: Curia Regis) of León (1188).
Isabella I ( Spanish: Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), [2] also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica ), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II. Reigning together over a dynastically unified Spain ...