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The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia (Spanish: cuatro reinos de Andalucía or, in 18th-century orthography, quatro reynos del Andaluzia) was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula, south of the Sierra Morena.
Since then and throughout the Ancient Regime, the territory of present-day Andalusia was constituted by the kingdoms of Jaén, Córdoba, Sevilla and Granada, all of them integrated into the Crown of Castile and often referred to as the four kingdoms of Andalusia. [note 3] View of Seville and its port in the 16th century, by Alonso Sánchez Coello
Andalusia (UK: / ˌ æ n d ə ˈ l uː s i ə,-z i ə / AN-də-LOO-see-ə, -zee-ə, US: /-ʒ (i) ə,-ʃ (i) ə /-zh(ee-)ə, -sh(ee-)ə; [6] [7] [8] Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a] ⓘ, locally also) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe.
This was a "kingdom" ("reino") in the second sense given by the Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española: the Crown of Castile consisted of several such kingdoms. Known also as the "Santo Reino" ("Holy Kingdom"), its territory coincided roughly with the present-day province of Jaén .
The Kingdom of Seville (Spanish: Reino de Sevilla) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile since 1248 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 Real Academia Española : the Crown of Castile consisted of ...
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The taifas (green) in 1031. The taifas (from Arabic: طائفة ṭā'ifa, plural طوائف ṭawā'if, meaning "party, band, faction") were the independent Muslim principalities and kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal and Spain), referred to by Muslims as al-Andalus, that emerged from the decline and fall of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba between 1009 and 1031.
Andalusia (Andalucía in Spanish) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain Wikimedia Commons has media related to Andalusia . Subcategories