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The Kingdom of Seville ( es, Reino de Sevilla) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile since 1248 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" (''"reino"'') in the second sense given by the '' Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española'': the Crown of Castile consisted of several such kingdoms. Seville was one of the
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. Its extent is detailed in ''Respuestas Generales del Catastro de Ensenada'' (1750–54), which was part of the documentation of a census. Falling largely within the present day
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of
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, it included roughly the territory of the present-day provinces of
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,
Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
, and
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, the Antequera Depression in the present-day province of Málaga, and also some
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in the present-day autonomous communities of
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in the province of
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. Like the other kingdoms within Spain, the Kingdom of Seville was abolished by the 1833 territorial division of Spain.


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Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
* :es:Anexo:Localidades del Reino de Sevilla, a list of the localities that composed the Kingdom of Jaén, according to the
Catastro of Ensenada In 1749 a large-scale census and statistical investigation was conducted in the Crown of Castile (15.000 castilian places; excluded the Basque provinces, Navarre and the Crown of Aragon). It included population, territorial properties, buildings, ...
(1750–54); this page is an appendix to the Spanish-language Wikipedia.


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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 '' ...
1248 establishments in Europe 1833 disestablishments in Spain 13th-century establishments in Castile