The Kingdom of Córdoba (also Kingdom of Cordova; es, Reino de Córdoba) was a territorial jurisdiction of the

Crown of Castile The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accessi ...

since 1236 until

Javier de Burgos Francisco Javier de Burgos y del Olmo (22 October 1778—22 January 1848) was a Spanish jurist, politician, journalist, and translator. Early life and career Born in Motril, into a noble but poor family, he was destined for a career in th ...

' provincial division of Spain in 1833. This was a "kingdom" ("") in the second sense given by the : the Crown of Castile consisted of several such kingdoms. Córdoba was one of the

Four Kingdoms of Andalusia The Four Kingdoms of Andalusia ( es, cuatro reinos de Andalucía or, in 18th-century orthography, ) was a collective name designating the four kingdoms of the Crown of Castile located in the southern Iberian Peninsula, south of the Sierra Moren ...

. Its extent is detailed in (1750-54), which was part of the documentation of a census. Like the other kingdoms within Spain, the Kingdom of Córdoba was abolished by the

1833 territorial division of Spain The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided the country into provinces, in turn classified into "historic regions" ( es, link=no, regiones históricas).The Spanish Federalist Tradition and the 1978 Constitution
, p. 12, footnote 63. Retrieved 31 December 2000. Cuatro Reinos de Andalucía

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