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Leonese. Galician. The Region of León, Leonese region or Leonese Country ( Leonese: País Llionés, Spanish: región de León and Asturian: rexón de Llión) is a historic territory defined by the 1833 Spanish administrative organisation. The Leonese region encompassed the provinces of Salamanca, Zamora, and León, now part of the modern ...
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 ...
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The Leonese (Leonese: Llïoneses; Spanish: Leoneses) are a subgroup of Spaniards, native to León in Spain.. The Leonese Kingdom was an independent kingdom in the Middle Ages until 1230 when it was joined to the Kingdom of Castile (from 1296 to 1301 the Kingdom of León was again independent); after the re-union with Castile in 1301 it remained a kingdom until 1833, but as part of a united ...
The Region of León, Leonese region or Leonese Country is a historic territory defined by the 1833 Spanish administrative organisation. The Leonese region encompassed the provinces of Salamanca, Zamora, and León, now part of the modern Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León. As is the case with other historical regions, and continuing with centuries of history, the inhabitants of ...
A Civilization Explained. The Leonese were the inhabitants of the Kingdom of León. They were among the first to take up arms against the muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula. The kingdom rose to great heights and became one of the primary powers in the area. Their success caught up with the Leonese when a certain “breakaway region ...
The Leonese Region was composed of the provinces of León, Salamanca and Zamora. Until 1833, the independently administered Kingdom of León, situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula , retained the status of a kingdom, although dynastic union had brought it into the Crown of Castile.
In 1981, those three provinces were included along with six other provinces from the former region of Castilla la Vieja to create the autonomous community of Castilla y León. However, important parts of the former kingdom today make up these three provinces, part of the traditional Castilla la Vieja and the autonomous communities of ...
