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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 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.
Postal code. 24001 - 24010. Telephone prefix. 987. Website. Ayuntamiento de León. León ( Spanish: [leˈon]; Leonese : Llión [ʎiˈoŋ]) is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the province of León, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It has a population of 124,303 (2019 ...
Ávila ( UK: / ˈævɪlə / AV-il-ə, [2] US: / ˈɑːv -/ AHV-, [3] Spanish: [ˈaβila] ⓘ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila . It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m above sea level, the city ...
Burgos ( Spanish: [ˈbuɾɣos] ⓘ) is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos . Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of the Arlanzón river tributaries, at the edge of the central plateau.
Alfonso VI ( c. 1040/1041 [a] – 1 July 1109 [2] ), nicknamed the Brave ( El Bravo) or the Valiant, was king of León (1065–1109), [3] Galicia (1071–1109), [b] and Castile (1072–1109). After the conquest of Toledo in 1085, Alfonso proclaimed himself victoriosissimo rege in Toleto, et in Hispania et Gallecia (most victorious king of ...
Castile or Castille (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; Spanish: Castilla) is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain. The use of the concept of Castile relies on the assimilation (via a metonymy) of a 19th-century determinist geographical notion, that of Castile as Spain's centro mesetario ("tableland core", connected to the Meseta Central) with a long-gone historical entity of diachronically ...
The Crown of Castile [nb 1] was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.