Kingdom of Castile
European sovereign state from 1065 to 1230. From 1230 to 1833 it was the territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kingdom of Castile was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. It began in the 9th century: it was called County of Castile and was a vassalage depending from the Kingdom of León. It was one of the kingdoms that existed before the Kingdom of Spain.
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Kingdom of Castile Reino de Castilla | |||||||||
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850–1479 | |||||||||
Capital | Burgos, Toledo | ||||||||
Common languages | Castilian, Basque, Galician, Leonese | ||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism (Islam, Judaism) | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Rodrigo becomes the first Count of Castile | 850 | ||||||||
• The County of Castile is unified by count Fernán González | 931 | ||||||||
• Castile becomes a kingdom | 1035 | ||||||||
• Castile and Aragon form Spain | 1479 | ||||||||
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