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The Kingdom of Castile (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; 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 Castellae), as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of León.
From the very beginning of World War II, Spain favoured the Axis Powers. Apart from ideology, Spain had a debt to Germany of $212 million for supplies of matériel during the Civil War. Indeed, in June 1940, after the Fall of France , the Spanish Ambassador to Berlin had presented a memorandum in which Franco declared he was "ready under ...
The Spanish achievement of the sixteenth century was essentially the work of Castile, but so also was the Spanish disaster of the seventeenth; and it was Ortega y Gasset who expressed the paradox most clearly when he wrote what may serve as an epitaph on the Spain of the House of Austria: ‘Castile has made Spain, and Castile has destroyed it.’
With the assumption in 1931 of the Second Spanish Republic, the possibility was introduced in the Constitution for the regions that made up Spain to become autonomous regions. Thus, in 1932 Catalonia approved its Statute of Autonomy , while the Vascongadas provinces did not make this possibility effective until 1936, when the Basque Autonomous ...
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, became King of Castile and Aragon. 1519: Vasco Nunez de Balboa died. 1535: 8 March: New Spain began till 1821. 1554: 25 July: English Queen Mary I of England married Spanish Prince Philip. [7] 1556: Charles abdicated in favor of Philip, who became King Philip II of Spain. 1557: Battle of St. Quentin (1557): Spain ...
Kingdom of Castile Order of Santa María de España: Marinid Sultanate Emirate of Granada: Defeat Battle of Moclín (1280) Part of the Reconquista; Location: Iberian Peninsula Kingdom of Castile Order of Santa María de España: Emirate of Granada: Defeat War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302) First War of Sicily (1282–1904) Second War of ...
The capture of Rheinfelden (1633). The Spanish empire was one of the most powerful in the world and one of largest in history.. The military history of Spain, from the period of the Carthaginian conquests over the Phoenicians to the former Afghan War spans a period of more than 2200 years, and includes the history of battles fought in the territory of modern Spain, as well as her former and ...
Castile or Castille (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; Spanish: Castilla ⓘ) is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain. [1] 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 ...