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The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia ( es, cuatro reinos de Andalucía or, in 18th-century
El ámbito territorial del Reino de Jaén: una cuestión de geografía histórica
''Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Giennenses'', ISSN 0561-3590, Nº. 112, 1982, pp. 83–96 History of Andalusia
The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia ( es, cuatro reinos de Andalucía or, in 18th-century orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation.
Most transnational languages in the modern period have a writing system, and mos ...
, ) was a collective name designating the four kingdom
Kingdom commonly refers to:
* A monarchy ruled by a king or queen
* Kingdom (biology), a category in biological taxonomy
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s of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
, south of the Sierra Morena
The Sierra Morena is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain. It stretches for 450 kilometres from east to west across the south of the Iberian Peninsula, forming the southern border of the ''Meseta Central'' plateau and providi ...
. These kingdoms were annexed from other states by the Kingdoms of Castille during the '' Reconquista'': the Kingdom of Córdoba
The Kingdom of Córdoba (also Kingdom of Cordova; es, Reino de Córdoba) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile since 1236 until Javier de Burgos' provincial division of Spain in 1833. This was a "kingdom" ("") in the second sen ...
was conquered in 1236, the Kingdom of Jaén
The Kingdom of Jaén ( es, reino de Jaén) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile since 1246 and until Javier de Burgos' provincial division of Spain in 1833. This was a "kingdom" () in the second sense given by the : the Crow ...
in 1246, the Kingdom of Seville
The Kingdom of Seville ( es, 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 '' ...
in 1248 and the Kingdom of Granada
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, common_languages = Official language:Classical ArabicOther languages: Andalusi Arabic, Mozarabic, Berber, Ladino
, capital = Granada
, religion = Majority religion:Sunni IslamMinority religions:Roman ...
in 1492.
The name was used in some contexts at least since the middle of the 18th century. Some works and documents that use the designation are the (1792), the (1810), and (1833), among many others.
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* Hermandad General de AndalucíaReferences
* Juan Eslava GalánEl ámbito territorial del Reino de Jaén: una cuestión de geografía histórica
''Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Giennenses'', ISSN 0561-3590, Nº. 112, 1982, pp. 83–96 History of Andalusia