Castile or Castille is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain. The use of the concept of Castile relies on the assimilation of a 19th-century determinist geographical notion, that of Castile as Spain's centro mesetario with a long-gone historical entity of diachronically variable territorial extension.
Castile and León is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983 by merging the provinces of the historic region of León: León, Zamora and Salamanca, with those of Old Castile : Ávila, Burgos, Palencia, Segovia, Soria and Valladolid. The provinces of Santander and Logroño, which until then had been included in the "Old Castile" administrative division, opted out of this merger and formed the new Autonomous Communities of Cantabria and La Rioja respectively. Condado de Treviño and La Puebla de Arganzón, the two municipalities that make up the Treviño enclave, are geographically surrounded by the neighboring Basque Country Autonomous Community, but belong to Castile and León.
Ferdinand IV of Castile called the Summoned, was King of Castile and León from 1295 until his death.
Henry II, called Henry of Trastámara or the Fratricidal, was the first King of Castile and León from the House of Trastámara. He became king in 1369 by defeating his half-brother Peter the Cruel, after numerous rebellions and battles. As king he was involved in the Fernandine Wars and the Hundred Years' War.
The Lagunas de Ruidera are a group of small lakes in the Campo de Montiel, Castilla-La Mancha, between Albacete Province, and Ciudad Real Province, Spain. Most of the lakes are interconnected and their total water amount may reach 23.06 hm3, which is considerable by the standards of other lakes in the Iberian Peninsula.
Old Castile 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, Burgos, Logroño, Soria, Segovia, Ávila, Valladolid and Palencia. As the rest of regions in that division, Old Castile never had any special administrative agency; only the individual provinces had their own management.
The Trabancos is a river in Spain that flows between the Zapardiel and the Guareña rivers, and is a tributary of the Duero river. The source of the Trabancos is in Moraña, a region in the north of the province of Ávila, near Blascomillán. The Trabancos is at an elevation of approximately 1,100 metres (3,600 ft), is approximately 85 kilometres (53 mi) long and, although its river bed is stable, only has a constant water flow during and immediately after torrential rains.
Castile, Castille or Castilla may refer to:
Osorno la Mayor is a municipio in Palencia province, Castile and León, Spain. The Chilean city of Osorno and Osorno Province (Chile) are named after this place.
Melgar de Fernamental is a municipality and town along the Pisuerga river, in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain. At the 2008 census (INE), it had a population of 1,898.
Boada de Campos is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. It is in the Tierra de Campos.
Ribas de Campos is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. It is on the course of the Canal de Castilla.
The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Antoninus is a Roman Catholic church located in Palencia, Spain. It is dedicated to Saint Antoninus of Pamiers.
Tierra de Campos is a large historical and natural region or greater comarca that straddles the provinces of León, Zamora, Valladolid and Palencia, in Castile and León, Spain. It is a vast, desolate plain with practically no relief, except for some wide undulations of the terrain.
The House of Haro was one of the most powerful families of Castile during the Middle Ages, which strongly supported the expansionist policies of Alfonso VI of Castile. As a reward, Íñigo López was named the first Lord of Biscay.
John of Castile, called the "el de Tarifa" was an infante of Castile and León. He was engaged in a decades-long fight for control over the Lordship of Biscay with Diego López V de Haro, the uncle of his wife.
The Regionalist Unity of Castile and León is a "regionalist, democratic, modern and innovative political party that, focusing on the principles of freedom, justice and solidarity, assumes the uncompromising defense of the legitimate interests of Castile and León."
The Monastery of Santa Cruz de Ribas, also called Santa Cruz de la Zarza, is a semi-ruined Spanish monastery of the Premonstratensian order. Located in the low valley of the Carrión River, it is situated between Ribas de Campos and Monzón de Campos, in the region of Tierra de Campos in Province of Palencia, Castile and León. The building was constructed in a transitional style between Romanesque and Gothic. The building is indexed in the Spanish heritage register of Bien de Interés Cultural under the reference RI-51-0000811.
The 2007 vole plague began in early summer 2006 in the province of Palencia, in the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León. In the summer of 2007, crops in the plateau fields were devastated by rodents. In September 2007, after a summer of severe losses, the density of rodents decreased throughout the community and the plague was institutionally considered to be over. However, there was an abundance of voles during the following months. Only the winter frosts and the low temperatures of November and December reduced vole numbers to normal.
The Palencia mining basin is a Spanish coal mining area located on the southern slope of the Cantabrian mountain range. It owes its name to its location, in the north of the province of Palencia, in the region of Montaña Palentina. Its main exploitations are black coal and anthracite.
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