The Kingdom of Jaén ( es, reino de Jaén) 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 1246 and 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. Known also as the ("Holy Kingdom"), its territory coincided roughly with the present-day province of Jaén. Jaén 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 Jaén 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). File:Señoríos del Reino de Jaén.svg, Map of the Kingdom of Jaén, based on the ''Respuestas Generales del Catastro de Ensenada''
(1750–54) File:Cuatro Reinos de Andalucía.svg, The

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kingdom of Jaen History of Andalusia States and territories established in 1246 States and territories disestablished in 1833

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