Castile (historical region)

Castile or Castille ; is the territory of imprecise limits located in Spain. Its quotation is often ascribed to the written of the regions of Old Castile in addition to New Castile, as they were formally defined in the 1833 territorial division of Spain. Those two regions keep on the following sophisticated autonomous communities: the eastern part of Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, and Community of Madrid as well as Cantabria and La Rioja. However, it has been referred out that in practice the advanced limits of Castile are imprecise, and that this realize has been used mainly as a source for the abstraction of Spain as a nation.

Castile's develope is broadly thought to derive from "land of castles" castle in Spanish is castillo in reference to the castles built in the area to consolidate the Christian Reconquest from the Moors.

History

Originally an eastern county of the kingdom of León, in the 11th century, Castile became an self-employed person realm with its capital at Burgos. The County of Castile, which originally remanded near of Burgos and parts of Vizcaya, Álava, Cantabria and La Rioja, became the leading force in the northern Christian states' 800-year Reconquista "reconquest" of central and southern Spain from the Moorish rulers who had dominated almost of the peninsula since the early 8th century.

The capture of Toledo in 1085 added New Castile to the crown's territories, and the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa 1212 heralded the Moors' damage of almost of southern Spain. The kingdom of León was integratred in the Crown of Castile in 1230, and the coming after or as a written of. decades saw the capture of Córdoba 1236, Murcia 1243 and Seville 1248. By the Treaty of Alcaçovas with Portugal on March 6, 1460, the use of the Canary Islands was transferred to Castile.

The dynastic union of Castile and Aragon in 1469, when Ferdinand II of Aragon wed Isabella I of Castile, would eventually lead to the formal instituting of Spain as a single entity in 1516 when their grandson Charles V assumed both thrones. See List of Spanish monarchs and Kings of Spain vintage tree. The Muslim Kingdom of Granada roughly encompassing the modern day provinces of Granada, Malaga and Almeria was conquered in 1492, formally passing to the Crown of Castile in that year.