Castile-La Mancha Totally Explained

Everything about Castilla-la Mancha totally explained

Castile-La Mancha (Spanish "Castilla-La Mancha") is an autonomous community of Spain.
   Castile-La Mancha is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's autonomous communities.
   The capital of Castile-La Mancha is Toledo.
   Castile-La Mancha was formerly grouped with the province of Madrid into New Castile ("Castilla la Nueva"), but with the advent of the modern Spanish system of semi-autonomous regions ("las autonomías"), it was separated due to great demographic disparity between the capital and the remaining New-Castilian provinces.
   It is in this region where the famous Spanish novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes was written. Although La Mancha is a windswept, battered plateau ("manxa" means parched earth in Arabic; hence La Mancha isn't definitively related to the Spanish word "mancha", or stain, which is derived from Latin "macula") it remains a symbol of the Spanish culture with its sunflowers, oliveyards, windmills, Manchego cheese and "Don Quijote".

History

The history of Castile-La Mancha has been significant. Its origin was founded during the Muslim period between the 8th and 14th century. Castile-La Mancha was the region of many historical battles between Christian crusaders and Muslim forces during the period of 1000 to the 14th centuries (until the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, which aftermath assured the Castilian domination of the region with the decline of the Almohad Dynasty). It was also the region were the unification of Castile and Aragon in 1492 under Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand was created.

Region

Castile-La Mancha is divided into 5 provinces named after their capital cities. The following category includes:

Other important towns in Castile-La Mancha (with more than 25 000 inhabitants) are:

Talavera de la Reina, Toledo

Puertollano, Ciudad Real

Tomelloso, Ciudad Real

Hellín, Albacete

Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real

Valdepeñas, Ciudad Real

Almansa, Albacete

Azuqueca de Henares, Guadalajara Other towns in Castile-La Mancha (with less than 25 000 inhabitants) are:

Caudete, Albacete

Puebla de Don Rodrigo, Ciudad Real

Villanueva de la Jara, Cuenca

Alustante, Guadalajara

Mazarambroz, ToledoFurther Information

Get more info on 'Castilla-la Mancha'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://castile-la_mancha.totallyexplained.com">Castile-La Mancha Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.