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  2. Iberian Union - Wikipedia

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    The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas ...

  3. Dynastic union - Wikipedia

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    A dynastic union is a type of union in which different states are governed beneath the same dynasty, with their boundaries, their laws, and their interests remaining distinct from each other. [ 1 ] It is a form of association looser than a personal union , when several states share the same monarch, and a real union , when they have common ...

  4. History of the territorial organization of Spain - Wikipedia

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    The history of the territorial organization of Spain, in the modern sense, is a process that began in the 16th century with the dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile, the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada and later the Kingdom of Navarre.

  5. Kingdom of Castile - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Castile (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; Spanish: Reino de Castilla: Latin: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.It traces its origins to the 9th-century County of Castile (Spanish: Condado de Castilla, Latin: Comitatus Castellae), as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of León.

  6. Catholic Monarchs of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Spain was formed as a dynastic union of two crowns rather than a unitary state, as Castile and Aragon remained separate kingdoms until the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707–16. The court of Ferdinand and Isabella was constantly on the move, in order to bolster local support for the crown from local feudal lords .

  7. Union of Aragon - Wikipedia

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    The Union of Aragon, Aragonese Union (Castilian and Aragonese: Unión Aragonesa, Catalan: Unió Aragonesa), or "Union of the Nobles" [1] was an anti-royalist movement [2] among the nobility and the townsmen of the lands of the Crown of Aragon during the last quarter of the thirteenth century.

  8. Personal union - Wikipedia

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    Personal union, as the Principality of Catalonia, with the Kingdom of Aragon (1164) the Kingdom of Mallorca (1229), and the Kingdom of Valencia (1238) constituting together the Crown of Aragon (1164-1715) Personal union with the Monarchy of Spain (1516-1714) Personal union with the Kingdom of France (1641-1652)

  9. Castile (historical region) - Wikipedia

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    Castile or Castille (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; Spanish: Castilla ⓘ) is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain. [1] The use of the concept of Castile relies on the assimilation (via a metonymy) of a 19th-century determinist geographical notion, that of Castile as Spain's centro mesetario ("tableland core", connected to the Meseta Central) with a long-gone historical entity of ...