Province: Leon-Castille

Owners Title: Rey

% of Worldwide          5.8%                    Starting Population     1,800                   

Population                                                                                      

% of Worldwide          4.8%                    Starting Income         30,906                  

Income                                                                                          

% of Worldwide GDP      2.3%                    Starting GDP            144,984                 

% of Worldwide          0.9%                    Starting Surplus        306
                     

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Language: H3

Kingdom: Leon-Castille

Industrial Fief

Starting Owner: de Castilla y Leon (8)

Starting Overlord : de Castilla y Leon (8)

Regional Location: Far Southwest Spain

Comments: Leon y Castilla are two large kingdoms which together comprise the northwestern and central regions of Spain. As with all of Spain, they had their beginnings in the small Christian states along the Pyrenees which survived the Islamic conquest in the 8th century. The original state, deriving from the ancient Principality of the Asturias, was divided among various heirs at different times, so that by the 11th century there were several distinct kingdoms, all of which were brought together as a result of a complicated series of marriages and inheritances in the early 13th century, not without a little bloodshed. There is an assembly of nobles and burgers, called the Cortes, and royal power is somewhat limited by them. There are two Archbishoprics, at Santiago de Compostela, the premier place of pilgrimage in western Europe, and Toledo, with some areas in the north directly under the Pope. There are universities at Salamanca and Valencia. The kingdom is mountainous or plateau, but thinly populated, albeit with a warlike people, hardened through centuries of fighting the Moors, who still occasionally make trouble along the frontier of distant Granada. There is much wool produced, but little other industry save along the coasts. The chief agricultural products are grains, with some wines and olives.