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Castile, Spain. Castile, traditional central region constituting more than one-quarter of the area of peninsular Spain. Castile’s northern part is called Old Castile and the southern part is called New Castile. The region formed the core of the Kingdom of Castile, under which Spain was united in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
- Castile–La Mancha
The capital is Toledo. Area 30,660 square miles (79,409...
- historical kingdom, Spain
In Reconquista. The kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and...
- Castile–La Mancha
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 ...
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Spain. 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.
- No settled capital
Though several distinct languages are spoken throughout Spain, Castilian (Castellano) is the country's national language, a status it garnered as a result of Castile's long-standing political dominance. Used in government, education, and the media, Castilian is the language that people in other countries identify as "Spanish."
Henry III. Henry III of Castile (1379 - 1406), called the Mourner (Spanish: Enrique el Doliente), was the son of John I and Eleanor of Aragon. He succeeded his father as King of Castile in 1390. Shortly after his birth, he was promised to be married to Beatrice of Portugal, the heir to the Portuguese throne.
