{"id":5,"date":"2018-11-27T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2024-03-02T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:56:02","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

\n\t\t\t\t\tAbout Castile and Le\u00f3n\n\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t

\n\t\t\t\t\tHistorical Background\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t

Castile and Le\u00f3n both have distinct, but intertwined, histories dating back to the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

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Castile is considered by some to be the cradle of Spanish civilization. The Castilian language eventually became the standard language in Spain, and across the Spanish speaking world. Indeed, Spanish and Castilian are generally considered to be synomous. The Kingdom of Castile was created in the 11th Century, and was preceded by the County of Castile in the 9th Century.<\/p>\n

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The Kingdom of Le\u00f3n was formed in 910 AD, and had a tumultuous history, with wars fought against the Moors and the Vikings among others, as well as civil wars within the Kingdom. The County of Castile separated from the Kingdom of Le\u00f3n in 931, the Kingdom of Portugal separated in 1139. Parts of Le\u00f3n were taken over by the Kingdom of Castile in 1230, followed by a brief period of independence around 1300. It reunited with Castile in 1301. It retained its crown until 1833 (and was part of a united Spain from 1479 onwards), when it was split into Salamanca, Zamora and Le\u00f3n provinces. The three provinces comprised the Region of Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

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In 1983 Castile and Le\u00f3n once again were joined together, as the three provinces of Le\u00f3n and six of the provinces of Old Castile came together as part of the Castile and Le\u00f3n Autonomous Community.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Modern\n\t

\n\t\t\t\t\tQuick Facts on Modern Castile and Le\u00f3n\n\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t

Castile and Le\u00f3n is an comunidad aut\u00f3noma (Autonomous Community) in northwestern Spain, created in 1983 by merging the traditional areas of Le\u00f3n and Old Castile. Landlocked, the region has a population of just under 2.5 million people. The main cities are Valladolid, Le\u00f3n, Salamanca, Burgos, and Palencia.\u00a0 The de-facto capital of Castile and Le\u00f3n is Valladolid.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About Castile and Le\u00f3n Historical Background Castile and Le\u00f3n both have distinct, but intertwined, histories dating back to the Middle Ages. \u00a0 Castile is considered by some to be the cradle of Spanish civilization. The Castilian language eventually became the standard language in Spain, and across the Spanish speaking world. Indeed, Spanish and Castilian are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castileandleon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}