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Location of Castile and León within Spain. Coordinates: 41°23′N 4°27′W. / 41.383°N 4.450°W / 41.383; -4.450. Country. Spain. Castile and León ( Spanish: Castilla y León ), known formally as the Community of Castile and León, is one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain .
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.).
Old Castile ( Spanish: Castilla la Vieja [kasˈtiʎa la ˈβjexa]) is a historic region of Spain, which had different definitions along the centuries. Its extension was formally defined in the 1833 territorial division of Spain as the sum of the following provinces: Santander (now Cantabria ), Burgos, Logroño (now La Rioja ), Soria, Segovia ...
20808. Area code. 34 (Spain) + 943 (Gipuzkoa) Getaria is a town on the Urola coast, in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in northern Spain. It borders Zarautz to the east and Zumaia to the west. Getaria is well-known for being the hometown of Juan Sebastián Elcano: a sailor famous for being the first ...
ISO 3166 code. ES. Internet TLD. .es [f] Spain, [g] or the Kingdom of Spain, [h] [i] is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. [11] [j] It is the largest country in Southern Europe and the fourth-most populous European Union member state. Spanning across the ...
El Cid. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ( c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve into El Çid ( Spanish: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id] ), and the ...
The Kingdom of Granada ( / ɡrəˈnɑːdə /; Spanish: Reino de Granada) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile from the conclusion of the Reconquista in 1492 until Javier de Burgos ' provincial division of Spain in 1833. This was a "kingdom" ( "reino") in the second sense given by the Diccionario de la lengua española de la ...
